Challenges in small animal noninvasive imaging

ILAR Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 248-262

  Balaban, Robert S ^a   Hampshire, Victoria A ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Advanced Veterinary Applications   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; CT; Mouse; MRI; Optical microscopy; PET; Rat; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RESEARCH; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MICROSCOPY; RATS; RESEARCH; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035222933     PISSN: 10842020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ilar.42.3.248     Document Type: Article

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