Deep-Tissue Reporter-Gene Imaging with Fluorescence and Optoacoustic Tomography: A Performance Overview

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 652-660

  Deliolanis, Nikolaos C ^a,b   Ale, Angelique ^a   Morscher, Stefan ^a,c   Burton, Neal C ^a,c   Schaefer, Karin ^a   Radrich, Karin ^a   Razansky, Daniel ^a   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATION IPA   (Germany)

^c ITHERA MEDICAL GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorescent proteins; Glioma; Optical imaging; Optoacoustic (photoacoustic) tomography; Reporter genes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895180313     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-014-0728-1     Document Type: Article

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