Multi-detector row CT scanning in Paleoanthropology at various tube current settings and scanning mode

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 536-543

  Badawi Fayad, J ^a,b   Yazbeck, C ^c   Balzeau, A ^b   Nguyen, T H ^a   Istoc, A ^a   Grimaud Herve D ^b   Cabanis, E A ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER NATIONAL D OPHTALMOLOGIE DES QUINZE VINGTS   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Fossil skulls; Multi detector row; Paleoanthropology

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUBE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PALEONTOLOGY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 30344464995     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-005-0041-4     Document Type: Article

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