Improved detection of pancreatic islets in vivo using double contrast

Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 308-313

  Herynek, Vít ^a,b   Berková, Zuzana ^a,b   Dovolilová, Eva ^a,b   Jirák, Daniel ^a,b   Kříž, Jan ^a   Girman, Peter ^a,b   Saudek, František ^a,b   Hájek, Milan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cellular labeling; Contrast enhanced MRI; Double contrast; Pancreatic islets; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

FERUCARBOTRAN; GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; GADOBENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATS;

EID: 80051938087     PISSN: 15554309     EISSN: 15554317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmmi.432     Document Type: Article

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