BaSO4-loaded agarose: A construction material for multimodality imaging phantoms

Academic Radiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 377-383

  Litt, Harold I ^c   Brody, Alan S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agarose; Barium sulfate; Computed tomography; Imaging phantoms; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE DERIVATIVE; AGAR; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

BUILDING MATERIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; ARTICLE; GEL; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION;

AGAR; BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; GELS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034742646     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)80544-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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