Small animal imaging facility: New perspectives for the radiologist;Servizio di imaging su piccoli animali: nuove prospettive per il radiologo

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 152-167

  Grassi, R ^a   Cavaliere, C ^a   Cozzolino, S ^b   Mansi, L ^a   Cirillo, S ^a   Tedeschi, G ^a   Franchi, R ^c   Russo, P ^d   Cornacchia, S ^e   Rotondo, A ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Micro CT; Micro PET; Molecular imaging; Optical imaging; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANIMAL HOUSING; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE THERAPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG INDUSTRY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 62949231036     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-008-0352-8     Document Type: Review

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