Initial investigation of preclinical integrated SPECT and MR imaging

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-27

  Hamamura, Mark J ^a   Ha, Seunghoon ^a   Roeck, Werner W ^a   Wagenaar, Douglas J ^b   Meier, Dirk ^b   Patt, Bradley E ^b   Nalcioglu, Orhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ideas Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

MRI; MRSPECT; Multimodality imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; TECHNETIUM 99M; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIOFREQUENCY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 76049085536     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303461000900103     Document Type: Article

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