Development of a phantom to simulate a wide range of body sizes

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3713-3717

  Lokitz, Stephen J ^a,b   Wilson, Joshua M ^a,b   Turkington, Timothy G ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MODULATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BODY SIZES; CROSS SECTIONAL DIMENSIONS; CT IMAGING; CT PROTOCOLS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES; EDGE ARTIFACTS; OBJECT SIZES; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECTS; PET ATTENUATIONS; PHANTOM MATERIALS; SIZE DEPENDENTS; TUBE CURRENTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 48349112166     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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