Korean adult male voxel model KORMAN segmented from magnetic resonance images

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1017-1022

  Lee, Choonsik ^a   Lee, Jaiki ^a   Lee, Choonik ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction; Dosimetry; Human model; Magnetic resonance; Voxel

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; DOSIMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; PHOTONS;

EFFECTIVE DOSE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMAN MODEL; INTERNAL RADIATION DOSE; LAYER BY LAYER; ORGAN POSITION; PHOTON FIELDS; VOXEL;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; STOMACH; TESTIS; WHOLE BODY AUTORADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 2442659088     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1689013     Document Type: Article

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