Evaluation of new algorithms for the interactive measurement of surface area and volume

Medical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 741-752

  Alvassin, Abdalmaieid M ^a   Lancaster, Jack L ^a   Downs, J Hunter ^a   Fox, Peter T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

interactive; surface area; tomography; volume 3 D

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEODESY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPHERES; SURVEYING; TITRATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COMPUTER GENERATED; INTERACTIVE; INTERACTIVE SURFACES; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE AREA MEASUREMENT; VOLUME 3-D;

VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0028341309     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597333     Document Type: Article

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