Small-animal whole-body photoacoustic tomography: A review

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1380-1389

  Xia, Jun ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical imaging; computed tomography; fluorescent protein; functional imaging; kidney perfusion; metabolic imaging; molecular imaging; nanoparticle distribution; photoacoustic macroscopy; photoacoustic tomography (PAT); small animal whole body imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CHROMOPHORES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMOGLOBIN; MOLECULAR IMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; KIDNEY PERFUSION; METABOLIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC MACROSCOPY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE-BODY IMAGING;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY CT; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; PHOTOACOUSTICS; RAT; SCINTIGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; PERFUSION IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84899699816     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2283507     Document Type: Article

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