Construction and use of a virtual phantom of the human bronchial tree;Konstruktion und einsatz eines virtuellen anthropomorphen phantoms des bronchialbaums

Radiologe

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 240-245

  Blank, M ^a   Kalender, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchial system; Fractals; Phantom; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; PHANTOM; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034114523     PISSN: 0033832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001170050663     Document Type: Article

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