Simultaneous PET/MR body imaging in rats: Initial experiences with an integrated PET/MRI scanner

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 444-449

  Tatsumi, Mitsuaki ^a   Yamamoto, Seiichi ^b   Imaizumi, Masao ^a   Watabe, Tadashi ^a   Kanai, Yasukazu ^a   Aoki, Masaaki ^c   Kato, Hiroki ^a   Shimosegawa, Eku ^a   Hatazawa, Jun ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOBE CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HITACHI CABLE LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

PET MRI; Rat

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE DERIVATIVE; METHIONINE C 11; SODIUM FLUORIDE F 18; TRACER; CARBON-11 METHIONINE; METHIONINE; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE; BRAIN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HARDER GLAND; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE QUALITY; JOINT; LIVER; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGISTER; RIB; WHOLE BODY PET; ANIMAL; DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHIONINE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM FLUORIDE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863414176     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 18646433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-012-0581-8     Document Type: Article

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