Small animal PET: A review of commercially available imaging systems

Current Medical Imaging Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 187-192

  Larobina, Michele ^a,b   Brunetti, Arturo ^a,b   Salvatore, Marco ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Positron emission tomography; Radionuclide imaging; Rodents

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATERIALS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745806563     PISSN: 15734056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340506776930610     Document Type: Review

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