In vivo resolution of multiexponential decays of multiple near-infrared molecular probes by fluorescence lifetime-gated whole-body time-resolved diffuse optical imaging

Molecular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 237-246

  Akers, Walter ^b   Lesage, Frederic ^b   Holten, Dewey ^b   Achilefu, Samuel ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DECONVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

LIFETIME MAPS; TEMPORAL POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION (TPSF); WHOLE-BODY REGIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TUMOR CELL LINE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MOLECULAR PROBES; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TIME FACTORS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 34848857625     PISSN: 15353508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7290.2007.00020     Document Type: Article

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