Evaluation of novel whole-body high-resolution rodent SPECT (Linoview) based on direct acquisition of linogram projections

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1872-1880

  Walrand, Stephan ^a   Jamar, François ^a   De Jong, Marion ^b   Pauwels, Stanislas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal SPECT; High resolution imaging; Linogram; Small animal imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

INDIUM 111; IRIDIUM; PENTETIC ACID; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; SUCCIMER TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 31844445644     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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