Mouse blood vessel imaging by in-line x-ray phase-contrast imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5735-5743

  Zhang, Xi ^a   Liu, Xiao Song ^b   Yang, Xin Rong ^a   Chen, Shao Liang ^a   Zhu, Pei Ping ^b   Yuan, Qing Xi ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; BLOOD; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CONTRAST AGENTS; CONTRAST IMAGES; CONTRAST IMAGING; IN LINES; INTERFEROMETRIC METHODS; LARGER FIELDS; PHYSIOLOGICAL SALINES; PORTAL VEINS; TREATMENT EFFECTS; TUMOR ANGIOGENESIS; TUMOR MODELS; X-RAY OPTICS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; IN LINE X RAY PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING; INTERFEROMETRY; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 58149265254     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/20/011     Document Type: Article

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