Small-animal imaging using clinical positron emission tomography/computed tomography and super-resolution

Molecular Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 210-219

  Di Filippo, Frank P ^a   Patel, Sagar ^a   Asosingh, Kewal ^a   Erzurum, Serpil C ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH COSTS; ITERATIVE DECONVOLUTION; NATIONAL ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATIONS; PET/CT SCANNERS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; PSF MODELING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RESEARCH STUDIES; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SMALL ANIMAL PET; SMALL-ANIMAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPER RESOLUTION;

IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMALS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POSITRONS; SCANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84862676712     PISSN: 15353508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7290.2011.00041     Document Type: Article

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