Simultaneous MRI and PET imaging of a rat brain

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6371-6379

  Raylman, Raymond R ^a   Majewski, Stan ^b   Lemieux, Susan K ^a   Velan, S Sendhil ^a   Kross, Brian ^b   Popov, Vladimir ^b   Smith, Mark F ^b   Weisenberger, Andrew G ^b   Zorn, Carl ^b   Marano, Gary D ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DRUG PRODUCTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; FUNCTIONAL IMAGES; LIGHT GUIDES; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE (PSPMT);

BRAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846873900     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/24/006     Document Type: Article

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