Price of isotropy in multidetector CT

Radiographics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-62

  Dalrymple, Neal C ^a   Prasad, Srinivasa R ^a   El Merhi, Fadi M ^a   Chintapalli, Kedar N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33847038030     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.271065037     Document Type: Review

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