Applications of penetrating radiation for small animal imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4786, Issue , 2002, Pages 80-90

  Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a,b,c   Wu, Max C ^a,b,c   Iwata, Koji ^a,b,c   Hwang, Andrew B ^a,b,c   Wong, Kenneth H ^a,b,c   Barber, William C ^a,b,c   Dae, Michael W ^a,c   Sakdinawat, Anne E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dual modality imaging; Positron emission tomography; Single photon emission computed tomography; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DUAL MODALITY IMAGING; PENETRATING RADIATION; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

RADIOLOGY;

EID: 0036986152     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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