Handling of Dynamic Sequences in Nuclear Medicine

@article{DiPaola1982HandlingOD,
  title={Handling of Dynamic Sequences in Nuclear Medicine},
  author={Robert Di Paola and J. P. Bazin and Florent Aubry and Andr{\'e} Aurengo and Françoise Cavailloles and J. Y. Herry and Edmond Kahn},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science},
  year={1982},
  volume={29},
  pages={1310-1321}
}
Nuclear Medicine is one of the first domains in which the analysis of image sequences was introduced. The development of this analysis was achieved parallel to the one of the computer systems linked to the scintillation cameras. The number of works that were performed in the research laboratories and have received an application in clinical routine is however limited. The authors indicate what could be the flow chart of the processing of dynamic sequences in scintigraphy and the kind of… 
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