Physical Problems of Computerized Tomography

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 373-378

  Macovski, Albert ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL;

EID: 0020721927     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1983.12595     Document Type: Article

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