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DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING IN RADIOISOTOPE IMAGING

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((NAII,volume 240))

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The use of computers in radioisotope imaging is now well established for data acquisition, data correction, image reconstruction, image display and manipulation, data storage, system control and multimodal imaging and registration. This paper reviews these areas highlighting some of the applications and demands on computing facilities.

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OTT, R.J. (2007). DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING IN RADIOISOTOPE IMAGING. In: Lemoigne, Y., Caner, A., Rahal, G. (eds) Physics for Medical Imaging Applications. NATO Science Series, vol 240. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5653-6_23

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