The current situation, aspects, and projects concerning nuclear medicine software in Europe

Since the 1984 Congress of the Society of Nuclear Medicine-Europe in Helsinki, the "Task Group for European Nuclear Medicine Software Cooperation", which became the "Joint ENMS/SNME Nuclear Medicine Software Task Group" in London in 1985, has focused attention on establishing a new COST project (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research) (COST 1981) in the field of nuclear medicine Software. On 20 March 1986, the mandate was finally approved officially by the COST Committee of Senior Officials in Brussels (see Editorial in this issue). The problems, content, and objectives of specific items and ideas regarding NM software that have been publicized at the European level are dealt with here. The reader actively interested in NM software is encouraged to participate in the COST framework and forum, in order to avoid duplication of effort and to utilize resources more efficiently by coordinating activities in nuclear medicine in Europe.