Quantitative Imaging with the Micro-pet Small-Animal Pet Tomograph

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 73, Issue , 2006, Pages 191-218

  Vaska, Paul ^a   Rubins, Daniel J ^b   Alexoff, David L ^a   Schiffer, Wynne K ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33646830591     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7742(06)73006-9     Document Type: Review

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