Comparison of X-ray CT and MRI of watercore disorder of different apple cultivars

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-50

  Herremans, Els ^a   Melado Herreros, Angela ^b   Defraeye, Thijs ^a   Verlinden, Bert ^c   Hertog, Maarten ^a   Verboven, Pieter ^a   Val, Jesus ^d   Fernández Valle, M Encarnación ^e   Bongaers, Evi ^f   Estrade, Pascal ^g   Wevers, Martine ^a   Barreiro, Pilar ^b   Nicolaï, Bart M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Flanders Centre of Postharvest Technology   (Belgium)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f Bruker microCT ^*  (Belgium)

^g VSG   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Histogram analysis; Microstructure; MRI; Watercore disorder; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883640312     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2013.08.008     Document Type: Article

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