A high-sensitivity small animal SPECT system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1291-1305

  Mitchell, Gregory S ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTIONS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; GAMMA-RAY; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; IMAGING AGENTS; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO IMAGING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE IMAGING; OPTICAL IMAGING; PARALLEL-HOLE COLLIMATORS; PRECLINICAL STUDIES; PROJECTION IMAGES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS; RECEPTOR SYSTEMS; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SCREENING APPLICATIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; SMALL ANIMALS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SPECT IMAGING; SPECT SYSTEMS; SUB MILLIMETERS; TIME RESOLUTIONS; TRACER COMPOUNDS;

ANIMALS; APPLICATIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST REDUCTION; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOISOTOPES; SCREENS (SIZING); SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STARS; TECHNETIUM;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

MERTIATIDE TC 99M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 63649149889     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/5/013     Document Type: Article

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