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High-Resolution Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography for Small Animals
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Important parameters to consider for the characterization of PET and SPECT imaging probes
Arvind Chopra1, Liang Shan, William C Eckelman
1Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agents Database, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. chopraa@mail.nih.gov
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
|August 23, 2011
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