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X-ray stereo photogrammetry locating the precise, three-dimensional position of image points

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A method of locating analytically the precise position in the object space of an image point such as a foreign body using simple stereo X-ray pictures and digitised co-ordinates of common image points identified in the stereo pictures is described.

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Adams, L.P. X-ray stereo photogrammetry locating the precise, three-dimensional position of image points. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 19, 569–578 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02442771

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