A contribution to the improvement of the intelligibility on scintigraphic images

First of all the physical conditions necessary to obtain the image of a radioactivated organ are defined, after which the characteristics of these images are analyzed in order to suggest a suitable treatment for each type of degradation. The relationships between the different parameters of the system: object to be detected, noise in the measurement, pulse response of the system etc... are expressed in mathematical formulae. It is shown that the detection system as a whole may be considered with a very good approximation as a linear filter and the generality of this approach enables it to be applied to any imagery system. Since in morphological examinations an abnormal relief is looked for in the representation of an organ the use of digital computing methods was considered as a means of showing up these reliefs from a previously restored image and the information processing aspect of the problem is considered. The generalization of two-dimensional positive unfolding is not utopian and it is found that the number of calculation to be performed is only proportional to n even when a (nxn) image is obtained