Fluorescence molecular tomography: Principles and potential for pharmaceutical research

Pharmaceutics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-274

  Stuker, Florian ^a   Ripoll, Jorge ^b   Rudin, Markus ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Fluorescence; Fluorescence molecular tomography; Hybrid imaging; Optical tomography

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; OCTREOTIDE; PRINOMASTAT;

ARTHRITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TARGETING; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBROSARCOMA; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHARMACEUTICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959820774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics3020229     Document Type: Review

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