A high-precision contrast injector for small animal X-ray digital subtraction angiography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1082-1091

  Lin, Ming De ^a,b   Ning, Lutao ^c   Badea, Cristian T ^a   Mistry, Nilesh N ^a,b   Qi, Yi ^a   Johnson, G Allan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Digital subtraction angiography; Functional imaging; Rodent; X ray

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

CONTRAST AGENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPAMIDOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IOPAMIDOL; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39749124359     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.909541     Document Type: Article

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