TY - JOUR
AU - James E. Holden , R. J. Nickles , Aaro Kluru , and R. E. Polcyn
AB -  INDEX TERMS: Nuclear Medicine Computers. Nuclear medicine, apparatus and equipment • Radionuclide imaging, apparatus and equipment Radiology 122:411-416, February 1977 nuclear medicine procedures take a broad variety of forms. A measurement made in a single patient study can be recorded as one image or hundreds of images, as one number or thousands of numbers. The nuclear medicine computer was introduced to resolve the fundamental dichotomy between the image measurement and numerical measurement approaches to nuclear medicine, and to accommodate the increasing volumes of data from ever evolving procedures. The data acquisition speed of a computer has also been an obvious asset as radiopharmaceutical and instrument development allow and demand increasing count rates and frame rates. The primary role of the more than 300 clinical medicine computer installations in the United States is the acquisition and analysis of gamma-camera dynamic studies. Frame rates are available up to 100/sec., indicating that the frame-rate limit is actually determined by patient dose and not by the instrumentation. In addition, sophisticated image region-of-interest routines can generate curves delineating the tracer dynamics in any anatomical region visible in the image, regardless of its shape or size. These features, plus the fundamental algebraic image manipulations 
TI - Use of a Generalized Modular Data Handling System in Nuclear Medicine
JO - Radiology
DA - 1977-02-01
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