Small animal imaging center design: The facility at the UCLA Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 393-402

  Stout, David B ^a   Chatziioannou, Arion F ^a   Lawson, Timothy P ^a   Silverman, Robert W ^a   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^b   Phelps, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence imaging; Fluorescence imaging; Gas anesthesia; Imaging facility design; Immunocompromised mouse imaging; microCT; microPET; Mouse imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HOUSING; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; COMPUTER; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; MOUSE; ORGANIZATION; RAT; UNIVERSITY;

ANIMALIA;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; ANIMALS; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CALIFORNIA; COMPUTERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INTERNET; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33644863034     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-005-0015-2     Document Type: Article

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