FMT-XCT: In vivo animal studies with hybrid fluorescence molecular tomography-X-ray computed tomography

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 615-620

  Ale, Angelique ^a   Ermolayev, Vladimir ^a   Herzog, Eva ^a   Cohrs, Christian ^b   De Angelis, Martin Hrabé ^b   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGA2 GENE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE DEFORMATION; BONE REMODELING; CANCER MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY; GENE; HISTOLOGY; HYBRID; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE K RAS; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BONE REMODELING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84861978149     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2014     Document Type: Article

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