Development of a novel radiation imaging detector system for in vivo gene imaging in small animal studies

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 4, 1998, Pages 1743-1749

  Weisenberger, Andrew G ^a,b   Bradley, E L ^a   Majewski, S ^a   Saha, M S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal research; Gamma camera

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IODINE; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIOISOTOPES;

ANIMAL RESEARCH; GAMMA CAMERA; GENE IMAGING; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES; RADIATION IMAGING DETECTORS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0032097501     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.685298     Document Type: Article

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