Technical limitations of the positron emission tomography (PET) for small laboratory animals;Limitaciones tecnológicas de la tomografía por emisión de positrones (PET) para pequeños animales de laboratorio

Revista Espanola de Medicina Nuclear

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 334-347

  Vaquero, J J ^a   Desco, M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18;

BIOCHEMISTRY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICS; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 28444469439     PISSN: 02126982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13079288     Document Type: Article

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