High resolution X-ray microtomography: Applications in biomedical research

Textbook of in vivo Imaging in Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-77

  Clerck, Nora De ^a   Postnov, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

High resolution X ray microtomography; Image reconstruction; Micro CT applications as scanning bio implants; Micro CT in skeletal morphology; Microtomography and biomedical imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 67849091398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470029596.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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