Development and applicability of a quality control phantom for dental cone-beam CT

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 245-260

  Pauwels, Ruben ^a   Stamatakis, Harry ^b   Manousaridis, Giorgos ^b   Walker, Adrian ^c   Michielsen, Koen ^d   Bosmans, Hilde ^d   Bogaerts, Ria ^d   Jacobs, Reinhilde ^a   Horner, Keith ^e   Tsiklakis, Kostas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Leeds Test Objects Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer assisted; Cone beam computed tomography; Dental equipment; Image processing; Imaging; Phantoms; Quality control

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855228753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v12i4.3478     Document Type: Article

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