In vivo small-animal imaging using micro-CT and digital subtraction angiography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Badea, C T ^a   Drangova, M ^b   Holdsworth, D W ^b   Johnson, G A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG DOSAGE; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; HEALTH; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IONIZING RADIATION; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANISMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

APPLICATIONS.; CARDIAC FUNCTIONS; CONTRAST AGENTS; CONTRAST MECHANISMS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG DISCOVERIES; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; IMAGING METHODS; IN-VIVO; LOWER COST; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICRO-CT; PHENOTYPING; SMALL ANIMALS; SMALL-ANIMAL IMAGING;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PERFUSION; IN VIVO STUDY; IONIZING RADIATION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANIMALS; HUMANS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 51849131434     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/19/R01     Document Type: Review

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