Abstract
Scintigraphy is a method of organ visualisation which enables us to describe organ shape, dimensions and position by means of the radiopharmaceutical tracers accumulated in the organ after oral or intravenous administration to the patient. Nuclear medicine scans (scintigrams), which are pictures obtained by gamma camera, can be characterised by the following features [1]:
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they have comparatively small image matrices (128 × 128 or 64 × 64);
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they are among the noisiest of known images (the signal to noise ratio is in the range of 8∶ 1 to 10∶1);
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the edges of the examined organ are blurred, so diagnostically important information usually lies in the texture;
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there are some additional deformations of the picture caused by the registration device.
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Oczeretko, E., Rogowski, F., Jurgilewicz, D. (1998). Fractal Analysis of Nuclear Medicine Scans. In: Losa, G.A., Merlini, D., Nonnenmacher, T.F., Weibel, E.R. (eds) Fractals in Biology and Medicine. Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8936-0_25
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