Fluorescent protein tomography scanner for small animal imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 878-885

  Zacharakis, Giannis ^a   Ripoll, Jorge ^b   Weissleder, Ralph ^a   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diffusion theory; Fluorescence tomography; Visible light; Whole body imaging

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PROTEINS; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIFFUSION THEORY; FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISIBLE LIGHT; WHOLE-BODY IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 23744516933     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.843254     Document Type: Article

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