A review of small animal imaging planar and pinhole SPECT Γ camera imaging

Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 162-170

  Peremans, Kathelijne ^a   Cornelissen, Bart ^a   Van Den Bossche, Bieke ^b   Audenaert, Kurt ^b   Van De Wiele, Christophe ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Pinhole SPECT; Planar imaging; Radiopharmaceuticals; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; RADIOLIGAND; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; HALF LIFE TIME; IMAGING; KINETICS; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; GAMMA CAMERAS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 18244394812     PISSN: 10588183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2005.00031.x     Document Type: Article

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