Preclinical Multimodality Imaging in Vivo

PET Clinics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-273

  Stout, David B ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomedical research; Image fusion; Molecular imaging; Multimodality imaging; Small animals

Indexed keywords

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67249154942     PISSN: 15568598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpet.2009.03.001     Document Type: Review

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