Measurement of coherent scattering form factors using an image plate

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5977-5990

  King, Brian W ^a   Johns, Paul C ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; X RAYS;

ILL-CONDITIONING; LITERATURE DATA; LOW RESOLUTION; MATRIX METHODS; MATRIX REPRESENTATION; MEASURED VALUES; TRANSFER PARAMETERS; X-RAY COHERENT SCATTERING;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION SCATTERING; WATER SAMPLING; X RAY;

EID: 58149218368     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/21/006     Document Type: Article

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