Quantitative optical densitometry with scanning-laser film digitizers

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1721-1731

  Dempsey, James F ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a   Kirov, Assen S ^a   Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophoresis gel quantitation; Film densitometry; Film digitization; Film dosimetry; Laser film digitizer

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ONCOLOGY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; RADIOTHERAPY; SCANNING; TRANSMISSIONS;

DISCRETE FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM; FILM DENSITOMETRY; FILM DOSIMETRY; LASER FILMS; LINE SPREAD FUNCTIONS; TRANSMISSION PROFILES; TRANSMISSION SCANNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FILM DOSIMETER; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032803563     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598664     Document Type: Article

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