Towards functional 3D T-ray imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3735-3742

  Ferguson, Bradley ^a,b,c   Wang, Shaohong ^a   Gray, Doug ^b,c   Abbott, Derek ^b   Zhang, X C ^a  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PLASTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TOMOGRAPHY;

TERAHERTZ PULSE IMAGING;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTION INDEX; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; AGNOSIA; ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMUR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; MICROWAVES; PHANTOM LIMB; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; TURKEY;

EID: 0037038489     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/21/309     Document Type: Article

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