The Forensic Reference Phantom-a new tool for quality assurance of attenuation measurements in forensic radiology

Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 51-55

  Ruder, Thomas D ^a,b   Hatch, Gary M ^c   Ebert, Lars ^a   Thali, Yannick ^a   Allmendinger, Thomas ^d   Schindera, Sebastian T ^e   Dalla Torre, Simon A ^f   Gascho, Dominic ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f Swissmedic   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Forensic radiology; Phantom; Virtopsy; X ray attenuation

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC REFERENCE PHANTOM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84876730210     PISSN: 22124780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jofri.2013.03.043     Document Type: Article

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