Modeling the detectability of vesicoureteral reflux using microwave radiometry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 5417-5435

  Arunachalam, Kavitha ^a   Maccarini, Paolo F ^b   De Luca, Valeria ^c   Bardati, Fernando ^d   Snow, Brent W ^e   Stauffer, Paul R ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; URINE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 78149295663     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/18/010     Document Type: Article

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