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Due to its noninvasive nature, nuclear imaging has become very important for the diagnosis of human heart diseases. In our research, we are concerned with scintigrams, i. e. images showing the radiation emitted by the blood pool after equal distribution of a radionuclide which has been injected into a peripheral vein of the patient. The two-dimensional intensity distribution on an image corresponds to the three-dimensional radiation distribution of the blood pool. In this way, the interior space of the heart, i.e. the heart cavities are visualized. For assessing the motility of the heart, a sequence of images triggered by ECG is taken, representing one cycle of the heart. Besides diagnosis, periodical supervision after heart surgeries is a major application of the analysis of scintigraphic image sequences.
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Bunke, H., Sagerer, G. (1983). A System for Diagnostic Evaluation of Scintigraphic Image Sequences. In: Neumann, B. (eds) GWAI-83. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69391-5_5
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