Quantitation of grey matter, white matter, and cerebrospinal fluid from spin-echo magnetic resonance images using an artificial neural network technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 1943-1952

  Desobry, G E ^a   Boyera, A L ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bremsstrahlung; energy fluence spectrum; Schiff spectrum

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTERING; CONVOLUTION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANALYTIC CALCULATIONS; ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; BREMSSTRAHLUNG; COMPUTER IMPLEMENTATIONS; ENERGY FLUENCES; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; SCHIFF SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION;

PHOTONS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0028575651     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597179     Document Type: Article

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