Surface area overestimation within three-dimensional digital images and its consequence for skeletal dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 682-693

  Rajon, D A ^a   Patton, P W ^b   Shah, A P ^a   Watchman, C J ^a   Bolch, W E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D surface; Marrow dosimetry; NMR microscopy; Trabecular bone; Voxel effects

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SOURCES; ELECTRONS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPHERES;

3D SURFACE; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO TRANSPORT SIMULATIONS; NMR MICROSCOPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE; TRABECULAR BONES; TRANSPORT CALCULATION; VOXEL EFFECTS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRABECULAR BONE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOPHYSICS; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0035999393     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1470207     Document Type: Article

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