Applicability of a high-resolution small semiconductor gamma camera to small animal imaging

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 736-741

  Kiyono, Yasushi ^a   Kuge, Yuji ^a   Katada, Yumiko ^a   Kawashima, Hidekazu ^b   Magata, Yasuhiro ^b   Saji, Hideo ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cadmium telluride; Gamma camera; Semiconductor; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMICONDUCTORS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34547678160     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32828d8cbc     Document Type: Article

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