A CT and MRI scan to MCNP input conversion program

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 513-516

  Van Riper, Kenneth A ^a  

^a White Rock Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GEOMETRY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 30844461656     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci184     Document Type: Article

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