Review of computational anthropomorphic anatomical and physiological models

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1938-1953

  Zaidi, Habib ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphic models; Human anatomy; Hybrid models; Laboratory animal anatomy; Monte Carlo simulation; Radiological imaging; Stylized models; Voxel models

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOINFORMATICS; DOSIMETRY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LABORATORIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC MODELS; HUMAN ANATOMY; HYBRID MODEL; LABORATORY ANIMALS; RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING; VOXEL MODELS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

EID: 70450270835     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2032852     Document Type: Review

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