Multiple-contrast X-ray micro-CT visualization of colon malformations and tumours in situ in living mice

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 330, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 821-827

  Choquet, Philippe ^a   Calon, Alexandre ^b,c   Breton, Élodie ^a   Beck, Felix ^d   Domon Dell, Claire ^b,c   Freund, Jean Noël ^b,c   Constantinesco, André ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cdx; Intestine; Micro computed tomography; Mouse; Tumours

Indexed keywords

AZOXYMETHANE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOMEPROL; IOMERON 400; MEGLUMINE IOXITALAMATE PLUS SODIUM IOXITALAMATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

RODENT; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR; VISUALIZATION; X-RAY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON MALFORMATION; COLON POLYP; COLON RADIOGRAPHY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENTEROPATHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 34948885219     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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