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Low Cost Reference Objects for Medical Imaging

Real world medical computerized tomography images are frequently difficult to compare quantitatively, yet it would be helpful to be able to do so for diseases such as lung cancer and emphysema. Here, I discuss two prototype reference objects including preliminary data for each.

Dr. Zachary Levine
Physicist
Electron and Optical Physics Division
NIST

Created September 7, 2010, Updated May 13, 2016