Computer applications in radionuclide imaging

✍ Scribed by Michael V. Green

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 448 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-4790
• DOI: 10.1002/jso.2930030607

✦ Synopsis

Computers for display, data manipulation, quautitation, diagnoses, and tomography offer the potential of improving the diagnostic efficacy of radionuclide imaging procedures. Although one may legitimately take issue over the question of expense us. results using present computer systems and techniques, it remains an undeniable fact that if the demand for quantitative information and its manipulation increases, the computer must eventually come to play a central role in nuclear medicine. Indeed, as the phenomena taken under study increase in complexity, perhaps evolving into multiparameter studies, the computer will necessarily be required to present these data in a form meaningful to the physician. This refinement of technique is readily applicable to oncological studies.