single-photon-emission computed tomography

single-photon-emission computed tomography

[′siŋ·gəl ¦fō‚tän i¦mish·ən kəm‚pyüd·əd tō′mäg·rə·fē] (medicine) A technique which measures the emission of single photons of a given energy from radioactive tracers to construct images of the distribution of the tracers in the human body. Abbreviated SPECT.