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The dramatic change from empirical to scientific technology in medicine: computerized imaging, communications and
1Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
Perhaps the single most important element in the rapid development of contemporary diagnostic imaging is simply its feasibility that results from the deliberate use of complicated, but powerful, mathematical formulation. Implemented with various types of computers, today mostly digital, in such applications at CT (computerized tomography), MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and others, the underlying principles of the 3-D (three-dimensional) image recording and reconstruction can all be traced back to the principles of "holography". Further improvements in image communications and processing, for example in view of robotized "Imaging-guided Stereotactic Diagnosis and Treatment" in high-field MRI is likely to result from suitable use of "Fuzzy Logic".
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