Computed tomographic volumetry of cerebral liquor by semiautomatic contour recognition and gray value histogram analysis;COMPUTERTOMOGRAPHISCHE VOLUMETRIE DES ZEREBRALEN LIQUORS MITTELS SEMIAUTOMATISCHER KONTURERKENNUNG UND GRAUWERTHISTOGRAMMANALYSE

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Volumn 164, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-18

  Tschammler, A ^a   Middendorf, C ^a   Ludinghausen M V ^a   Wittenberg, G ^a   Krahe, Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain, CT; Cerebrospinal liquor; CT, phantom studies; Image analysis, quantitative; Volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY;

BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030046484     PISSN: 09366652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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