Simultaneous PET and multispectral 3-dimensional fluorescence optical tomography imaging system

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1268-1275

  Li, Changqing ^a   Yang, Yongfeng ^a   Mitchell, Gregory S ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Optical imaging; PET; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER; MELANOMA; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLUORESCENCE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KINETICS; LASERS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 80051673769     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.082859     Document Type: Article

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