Optimised motion tracking for positron emission tomography studies of brain function in awake rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Kyme, Andre Z ^a   Zhou, Victor W ^a,c   Meikle, Steven R ^a   Baldock, Clive ^a   Fulton, Roger R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; VALIDATION STUDY; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FIDUCIAL MARKER; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SCINTISCANNING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STANDARD;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LABORATORIES; MALE; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROBOTICS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 79959793403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021727     Document Type: Article

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