Voxel-based computational models of real human anatomy: A review

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 229-235

  Caon, Martin ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHANTOM; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 1342330131     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-003-0221-8     Document Type: Review

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