A digital phantom of the axilla based on the Visible Human Project® data set

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages

  McCallum, Stephen J ^a   Welch, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTODETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

AXILA; DATA SET; DIGITAL PHANTOM; LYMPH NODE IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDED IMAGING;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 0034593895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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