An anthropomorphic beating heart phantom for cardiac X-ray CT imaging evaluation

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 191-199

  Boltz, Thomas ^a   Pavlicek, William ^a   Paden, Robert ^a   Renno, Markus ^a   Jensen, Angela ^a   Akay, Metin ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphic; Cardiac; Ct; Heart phantom; Image quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954253360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v11i1.3129     Document Type: Article

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