Evaluation of mouse tail-vein injections both qualitatively and quantitatively on small-animal PET tail scans

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 264-270

  Vines, Douglass C ^a,b   Green, David E ^a   Kudo, Gen ^a,c   Keller, Harald ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

microPET; Mouse imaging; Mouse tail vein injections; Quantitative PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MICE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIL; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84855605027     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.111.090951     Document Type: Article

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