On the molecular relationship between Hounsfield Unit (HU), mass density, and electron density in computed tomography (CT)

Atchar Sudhyadhom

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244861

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On the molecular relationship between Hounsfield Unit (HU), mass density, and electron density in computed tomography (CT)

Atchar Sudhyadhom

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ASudhyadhom@bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0397-0884

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On the molecular relationship between Hounsfield Unit (HU), mass density, and electron density in computed tomography (CT)

Atchar Sudhyadhom

Published: December 31, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244861

About the Authors

Atchar Sudhyadhom

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ASudhyadhom@bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0397-0884

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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