| Author/Editor | Fidler, Valentin; Prepadnik, Milan; Fettich, Jurij | |
| Title | Development of nuclear medicine computer system for acquisition and analysis of scintigraphic image data | |
| Type | članek | |
| Source | In: Lavrač N, editor. CADAM-95. Zbornik Računalniška analiza medicinskih podatkov; 1995 nov 27-28; Bled. Ljubljana: Inštitut Jožef Štefan, | |
| Publication year | 1995 | |
| Volume | str. 125-35 | |
| Language | eng | |
| Abstract | Our own development of nuclear medicine computer system was due mainly because of the very high prices of commercial system and due to our knowledge 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 till now after two prototypes the highly professional one card acquisition board was built along with the acquisition and data analysis software. The acqusition board is characterised by stabile functioning, simple installation in an empty motherboard slot, automatic settlement of picture's size, shape and uniformity and automatic correction of analogue-digital converter nonlinearity. After trying different models of processor input of scintigraphic signals (DMA ,PORT) the latest one was chosen because of it's simpler programming code, no stability problems and the possibility of using in DOS and WINDOWS. The acquisition software consists of the preddefined set of acquisition protocols for standard nuclear medicine investigations, persistence scope simulation with possibility of changing the image orientation, zoom size and automatic image quality control functions and archiving the patient population and scintigraphic data. Along with the database management and system processing routines from A. Todd-Pokropek (London University) we added some clinical processing modules for most common nuclear medicine investigations. System was successfully introduced to daily routine work in our clinic and momentary to two places in Pakistan. | |
| Descriptors | RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING GAMMA CAMERAS DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED NUCLEAR MEDICINE |