A liposomal nanoscale contrast agent for preclinical CT in mice

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 300-307

  Mukundan Jr , Srinivasan ^a   Ghaghada, Ketan B ^b   Badea, Cristian T ^a   Kao, Chen Yu ^c   Hedlund, Laurence W ^a   Provenzale, James M ^a   Johnson, G Allan ^a   Chen, Emmanuel ^b   Bellamkonda, Ravi V ^c   Annapragada, Ananth ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c Emory University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal studies; Contrast media; CT; Molecular imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DISTEAROYLPHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE N [METHOXY(MACROGOL 2000)]; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; IODINE; IODIXANOL; LIPOSOME; NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISIPAQUE 320; IODOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSEL; DRUG FORMULATION; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROENCAPSULATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOGRAPHY; VITAL SIGN; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIPOSOMES; MICE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 33644981609     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.0523     Document Type: Article

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