Modeling respiratory mechanics in the MCAT and spline-based MCAT phantoms

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1 I, 2001, Pages 89-97

  Segars, W P ^a   Lalush, D S ^a   Tsui, B M W ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POLYNOMIALS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; NON-UNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINE SURFACES; PHANTOMS;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 0035246235     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.910837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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