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Two-dimensional image enhancement and restoration procedures as well as transverse section reconstruction from multiple views are methods of digital image processing with some useful applications to nuclear medicine. Simple spatial filtering has only limited application to nuclear medicine because the impulse response changes significantly with organ distance from the detectors; however other methods of image processing have been found to benefit clinical diagnoses. These techniques include thresholding and contrast enhancement, dual isotope image subtraction, synthesis of parametric images, stop-action imaging techniques, motion image, digital tomography, coded aperture tomography, and transverse section image reconstruction.
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Budinger, T.F. (1976). Digital Image Processing for Medical Diagnoses using Gamma Radionuclides and Heavy Ions from Cyclotrons. In: Preston, K., Onoe, M. (eds) Digital Processing of Biomedical Images. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0769-3_12
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