Author/Editor		Fidler, V; Prepadnik, M; Fettich, J
Title		Autoadjustment of inputting GAMMA camera signals
Type		članek
Source		In: Premik M, editor. MI 96. Zbornik prispevkov s kongresa Društva za medicinsko informatiko; 1996 Sep 22-25; Bled. Ljubljana: Društvo za medicinsko informatiko Slovenije,
Publication year		1996
Volume		str. 213-22
Language		eng
Abstract		Our own development of nuclear medicinecomputer system was due mainly because of the very high prices of commercial systems 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 after two prototypes the highly professional acquisition board was built along with acquisition and data analysis software. The acquisition board is characterised by stabile functioning, simple installation in an empty motherboard slot with automatic settlement of picture's size and offset. After testing diffeent modes of processor input of scintigraphic signals (DMA, PORT) the latest one was chosenbecause of it's simpler programming code, good stability and the possibility of using it in DOS and WINDOWS. The acquisition software consist of the predefined set of acquisition protocols for standard nuclear medicine investigations, persistence scope simulation with possibility of changing the image orientation, zoom size, automatic adjustment of image size, offset and pixel size 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 clinical and to some other places.
Descriptors		GAMMA CAMERAS NUCLEAR MEDICINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SIMULATION