Derivation of linear attenuation coefficients from CT numbers for low- energy photons

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2201-2211

  Watanabe, Yoichi ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY TRANSFER; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032878124     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/9/308     Document Type: Article

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