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Review

Development of Computers in Nuclear Medicine

E. David Williams  1
Ralph McCready  1 , Gopinath Gnanasegaran  2 , Jamshed B. Bomanji  3
, editors.
In: A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK: 50th Anniversary of the British Nuclear Medicine Society [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2016. Chapter 18.
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Development of Computers in Nuclear Medicine

E. David Williams.
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The story of computing in nuclear medicine is one of a role enabling continually improving performance and an interaction between technologies and applications, but sometimes with a pause for technical performance to catch up with user demand. At the beginning of the medical use of radioactivity in clinical research and diagnosis, measurements of nuclear radiation, typically using a Geiger-Muller or a scintillation counter, enabled comparisons between the radioactivity of samples to be made. The next step forward came from the advent of minicomputers in the 1970s and for clinical nuclear medicine, developments in the 2000s decade included the introduction of systems giving more integration of nuclear medicine in diagnostic imaging. This chapter summarises the development of Computers in Nuclear Medicine.

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