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The use of small digital computers is expanding in both research and clinical medicine. One of the first diagnostic areas to employ computers was that of nuclear medicine and their use in radionuclide imaging was reviewed by Smith and Brill (1967). Although the use of the computer in a nuclear medicine department is not confined to the processing of images, the most likely site for the computer is nevertheless one in which it is connected to a gamma camera. In addition, normally the majority of isotope tests carried out in a typical department, if assay type tests are excluded, are imaging procedures and therefore this chapter will confine itself to a discussion of the problems involved in the collection and processing of data derived from radionuclide images. The gamma camera will be assumed to be the source of these data.
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Barber, D.C. (1982). Data Handling and Computation in Radionuclide Studies. In: Wilson, C.G., Hardy, J.G., Frier, M., Davis, S.S. (eds) Radionuclide Imaging in Drug Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9728-1_3
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