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The process of convolution appears in many aspects of nuclear medicine imaging. For example the output activity-time curve from an organ after a bolus injection is the convolution of an input activity-time curve with the frequency function of transit times of the organ, i.e. its impulse response function. In a two-dimensional situation, the blurring of images in nuclear medicine is partly due to convolution of the object activity distribution with the impulse response function of the camera and collimator system.
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de Lima, J.J.P. (1984). Applications of Convolution and Deconvolution Methods in Nuclear Medicine. In: Dendy, P.P., Ernst, D.W., Şengün, A. (eds) Technical Advances in Biomedical Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6125-8_23
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