A new method for respiratory gating during microcomputed tomography of lung in mice

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 46-56

  Johnson, Evan M ^a   Price, Roger E ^a,c   Kurie, Jonathan M ^b   Rivera, Belinda S ^a,d   Cody, Dianna D ^a  

^a Department of Imaging Physics ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c Veterinary Pathology Services   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG; LUNG LESION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG STRUCTURE; LUNG TUMOR; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY GATING;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MINIATURIZATION; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 48949106860     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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