Submillimeter total-body murine imaging with U-SPECT-I

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 487-493

  Vastenhouw, Brendan ^a   Beekman, Freek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Molecular imaging; Mouse; Pinhole; Reconstruction; SPECT

Indexed keywords

OXIDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM TC 99M HYDROXYMETHYLENE DIPHOSPHONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE SCINTISCANNING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BONE; C57BL MOUSE; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MOUSE; SCINTISCANNING;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34247220447     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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