Development of a unique phantom to assess the geometric accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging for stereotactic localization

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1423-1431

  Orth, Robert Chappell ^a,c   Sinha, Praveen ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a   Frank, Gary ^a   Korosec, Frank R ^a,b   Mackie, T Rockwell ^a   Mehta, Minesh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Phantom; Spatial accuracy; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032806369     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199912000-00030     Document Type: Article

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