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Biomedical Engineering
SPECT/CT Imaging for Mouse Disease Tracking
Description
SPECT/CT imaging combines nuclear imaging and X-ray imaging to study mice. It uses a radionuclide, which is a radioactive tracer, that is injected into the animal. After the tracer spreads through the body, the mouse is scanned and the images are reconstructed into a 3D dataset.
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Transcript
Combined SPECT-CT scan can be used to simultaneously provide anatomical and functional information about a particular organ of interest.
Single photon emission computed tomography, or SPECT imaging, directly measures the radiation from an intravenously injected radioactive species via a gamma camera. This enables noninvasive imaging of bi...
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