Improved in vivo whole-animal detection limits of green fluorescent protein-expressing tumor lines by spectral fluorescence imaging

Molecular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 269-276

  Tam, Jenny M ^a   Upadhyay, Rabi ^a   Pittet, Mikael J ^a   Weissleder, Ralph ^a   Mahmood, Umar ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; PROTEINS;

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN (GFP); SPECTRAL PROFILE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; RAT; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TUMOR CELL LINE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; RATS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 34848830427     PISSN: 15353508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7290.2007.00023     Document Type: Article

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