Functional imaging of brown fat in mice with 18F-FDG micro-PET/CT

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 69, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Xukui ^a   Minze, Laurie J ^a   Shi, Zheng Zheng ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

18F Fluorodeoxyglucose; Anatomy; Brown adipose tissue; CT; CT scan; Imaging; Issue 69; Medicine; Mice; Micro PET; Molecular biology; Neuroscience; PET; Physiology; Tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870352895     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4060     Document Type: Article

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