Molecular imaging based on x-ray fluorescent high-Z tracers

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8063-8076

  Müller, Bernhard H ^a   Hoeschen, Christoph ^a   Grüner, Florian ^b   Arkadiev, Vladimir A ^c   Johnson, Thorsten R C ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR KATALYSE E V AN DER UNIVERSITÄT ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; IODINE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; X RAYS;

DETECTION METHODS; IMAGE DISTRIBUTIONS; IN-VIVO IMAGING; IODINE SOLUTIONS; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; SMALL DETECTORS; TRACER CONCENTRATION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE IMAGING;

FLUORESCENCE;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; X RAY;

MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL IMAGING; X-RAYS;

EID: 84896532160     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/22/8063     Document Type: Article

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