PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Garcia, Ernest V. TI - Digital Processing in Nuclear Medicine Imaging DP - 1986 Mar 01 TA - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology PG - 21--31 VI - 14 IP - 1 4099 - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/14/1/21.short 4100 - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/14/1/21.full SO - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.1986 Mar 01; 14 AB - This is the first in a series of four Continuing Education articles on computers. After studying this article, the reader should be able to: 1) understand the basic operations of image filtering; and 2) discuss the use and merits of a variety of filtering techniques and functional images.