Design and demonstration of a small-animal up-conversion imager

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21731-21747

  Salthouse, Christopher ^a   Hildebrand, Scott ^a   Weissleder, Ralph ^a   Mahmood, Umar ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS;

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; HIGHER ENERGY PHOTONS; IN-VIVO IMAGING; INTRAVENOUS INJECTIONS; LOWER ENERGIES; PARTICLE ACCUMULATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; UP CONVERSION;

ANIMALS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MICE; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS;

EID: 58149117814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021731     Document Type: Article

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