Within the PET Center, PC's and MacIntosh computers are
used for data acquisition, reconstruction, and initial
viewing of images. MedImage software is used by physicians
to read patient studies.
Image analysis (ROI drawing and image math) and
physiological modeling (quantitative FDG, Patlak, blood
flow) are done routinely on dynamically acquired data sets.
High speed Linux processors are used for Monte Carlo
simulations of detector design. Specialized image analysis
programs have been developed in Siemens ICON and research
systems IDL software. MEDx software (Sensor Systems) running
on a Linux system provides SPM image coregistration and
rapid image processing functions.
