Emerging Imaging Modalities in Regenerative Medicine

Current Pathobiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-36

  Stacy, Mitchel R ^a   Sinusas, Albert J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Cell therapy; Gene therapy; Molecular imaging; Regenerative medicine; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986592011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2167485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40139-015-0073-3     Document Type: Review

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