One of my relatives is a cardiologist, and he uses a ridiculously expensive medical imaging workstation with proprietary software that costs tens of thousands of dollars. This thing is ancient and runs Solaris. It's called a Pegasys ADAC I believe. Here is a sample of what this type of system analyzes:

These are image slices from a camera that orbits around the patient and looks at their heart. It works by detecting radioactive emissions from isotopes injected into the patient. The proprietary software (examples of software) assembles these slices into a volumetric visualization of blood flow through the patient's heart, and also computes things like blood flow and other relevant measurements. The resolution has not seemed to improve in 20 years despite advances in camera technology and other areas, so he is stuck using this old technology.

I was intrigued by this page on the Wolfram site regarding volumetric visualization and manipulation of 3D visuals based on image slices.

It appears Mathematica can do exactly the same thing that the medical imaging system does, for about 1/30th the price, and produce better results, and also not lock someone into a proprietary file format. Also, Mathematica would permit many additional features such as statistical analyses and various other features across large volumes of collected patient data. Currently, that is a manual process involving data entry into Excel spreadsheets, if it is even done at all.

Has anyone used Mathematica for nuclear medicine?