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Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine pp 237–250Cite as

Image Formation and Data Processing

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Part of the book series: Diagnostic Imaging ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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For the past several years, computer speeds have tended to double every year. This is an exponential growth curve, and the cumulative gain is impressive: programs running for a day 10 years ago now require a minute. This allows algorithm designers to follow new strategies. Ingenious mathematics and clever numerical analysis now must face competition from inefficient and ugly brute-force computations, and soon will no longer be necessary. An important advantage is that problems which cannot be solved analytically can now be tackled with computation-intensive numerical procedures.

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Nuyts, J. (2000). Image Formation and Data Processing. In: Schiepers, C. (eds) Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine. Diagnostic Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06590-7_14

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