Development of an interactive software application to model patient populations in the 4D NURBS-based Cardiac Torso phantom

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Segars, W Paul ^a   Lalush, David S ^a,b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANATOMY; CARDIAC TORSO PHANTOM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034593599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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