Early photon tomography allows fluorescence detection of lung carcinomas and disease progression in mice in vivo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 19126-19131

  Niedre, Mark J ^a,b   De Kleine, Ruben H ^a   Aikawa, Elena ^a   Kirsch, David G ^a,c   Weissleder, Ralph ^a   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Diffuse; Imaging; Molecular; Optical

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY PHOTON TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEWIS CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, LEWIS LUNG; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-3; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 58049204386     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804798105     Document Type: Article

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