Fluorescent Computer Tomography: A Model for Correction of X-Ray Absorption

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 1721-1727

  Krieger, Allen S ^b   Gonsalves, Robert A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Radiation Science Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING--RECONSTRUCTION; TRACE ANALYSIS; X-RAYS--ABSORPTION;

FLUORESCENT COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026370093     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.124168     Document Type: Article

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