Current Trends in Preclinical PET System Design

PET Clinics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-160

  Levin, Craig S ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMEDICINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 56749178486     PISSN: 15568598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpet.2007.12.001     Document Type: Review

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