Regional brain perfusion in 12 cats measured with technetium-99m-ethyl cysteinate dimer pinhole single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 105-110

  Waelbers, Tim ^a   Peremans, Kathelijne ^a   Vermeire, Simon ^a   Dobbeleir, André ^a   Boer, V O ^b   de Leeuw, Hendrik ^b   Vente, Maarten A D ^b   Piron, Koen ^a   Hesta, Myriam ^a   Polis, Ingeborgh ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATS; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; MALE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84873815510     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: 15322750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1098612X12461642     Document Type: Article

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