Hybrid SPECT/cardiac-gated first-pass perfusion CT: Locating transplanted cells relative to infarcted myocardial targets

Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-84

  Sabondjian, Eric ^a,c   Mitchell, Andrea J ^a,b   Wisenberg, Gerald ^a,b   White, James ^a,b   Blackwood, Kimberley J ^a   Sykes, Jane ^a   Deans, Lela ^a   Stodilka, Robert Z ^a,c,d   Prato, Frank S ^a,c  

^a LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

111In labeling; Cell localizing; Contrast to noise ratio; First pass perfusion CT; Hybrid SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

TROPOLONE IN 111;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HALF LIFE TIME; HEART INFARCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LIGATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRACKING; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOGS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TROPOLONE;

EID: 84863396452     PISSN: 15554309     EISSN: 15554317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmmi.469     Document Type: Article

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