Materials analysis using x-ray linear attenuation coefficient measurements at four photon energies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 4139-4157

  Midgley, S M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATHOLOGY; PHOTONS; POLYNOMIALS; X RAYS;

ELEMENTAL CROSS-SECTIONS; ITERATIVE INVERSION; MATHEMATICAL PATHOLOGY; X-RAY LINEAR ATTENUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 24044529491     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/17/016     Document Type: Article

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