Author/Editor		Fidler, V; Prepadnik, Milan
Title		Nuclear medicine IBM PC PIP-gamma-PF computer system
Type		članek
Source		In: Working material upgrading analog gamma cameras with standard PCs and relevant software. Vienna: IAEA - International atomic energy agency,
Publication year		2000
Volume		str. 59-66
Language		eng
Abstract		Our own development of nuclear medicine computer system was mainlydue to very high prices of commerciai systems and was based on our knowlelge and experiences in the development of some other nuclear medicine equipment and processing software (1,2). The project was started 5 years ago on the low cost IBM PC and after two prototypes a highly professional acquisition board was built along with acquisition and data analysis software. The acquisition board is characterised by stabile functioning and simple installation. After testing different modes of processor input of scintigraphic signals (DMA, PORT) the latest one was chosen because of its simpler programming code, good stability and the possibility of using it in DOS and WINDOWS. The acquisition software consists of the predefined set of acquisition protocols for standard nuclear medicine investigations, simulation of persistence scope with possibility of changing the image orientation, zoom size, automatic adjustment of the image size, offset and pixel size, analysis of clinical image dada and archiving the patient population and scintigraphic data by using the department's network. To the database management and system processing routines from A.Todd-Pokropek (London University) we added some clinical processing modules the most common nuclear medicine investigations. Our system was successfully applied in daily routine work at the clinic for nuclear medicine in Ljubljana and in numerous places in the world.
Descriptors		RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED SOFTWARE DESIGN MICROCOMPUTERS