Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 9 , Pages 1134-1141.e1 , September 2009

An Airway Phantom to Standardize CT Acquisition in Multicenter Clinical Trials

Received 31 October 2008 ,Accepted 27 February 2009.

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PII: S1076-6332(09)00176-7

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.02.018

Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 9 , Pages 1134-1141.e1 , September 2009

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