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4 November 1981 Unified Digital Image Display And Processing System
Steven C. Horii, Gerald Q. Maguire, Marilyn E. Noz, James H. Schimpf
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Abstract
Our institution like many others, is faced with a proliferation of medical imaging techniques. Many of these methods give rise to digital images (e.g. digital radiography, computerized tomography (CT) , nuclear medicine and ultrasound). We feel that a unified, digital system approach to image management (storage, transmission and retrieval), image processing and image display will help in integrating these new modalities into the present diagnostic radiology operations. Future techniques are likely to employ digital images, so such a system could readily be expanded to include other image sources. We presently have the core of such a system. We can both view and process digital nuclear medicine (conventional gamma camera) images, positron emission tomography (PET) and CT images on a single system. Images from our recently installed digital radiographic unit can be added. Our paper describes our present system, explains the rationale for its configuration, and describes the directions in which it will expand.
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Steven C. Horii, Gerald Q. Maguire, Marilyn E. Noz, and James H. Schimpf "Unified Digital Image Display And Processing System", Proc. SPIE 0314, Digital Radiography, (4 November 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.933068
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KEYWORDS
Computed tomography

Positron emission tomography

Image processing

Radiography

Cameras

Scanners

Digital imaging

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