A high-resolution XRII-based quantitative volume CT scanner

Medical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 449-462

  Holdsworth, D W ^a,b   Drangova, M ^a,b   Fenster, A ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

image intensifier; quantitative computed tomography; reconstruction; three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

AGED; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN VITRO; MALE; RABBITS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0027205207     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597038     Document Type: Article

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