Materials for phantoms for terahertz pulsed imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Walker, Gillian C ^a   Berry, Elizabeth ^a   Smye, Stephen W ^b   Brettle, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MUSCLE; PLASMA SIMULATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESEARCH; TEACHING; TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUES; MICROVASCULATURE; PHANTOMS; TERAHERTZ PULSED IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DYE;

ABSORPTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROVASCULATURE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

COLORING AGENTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GELS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 8544277277     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/21/N01     Document Type: Article

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