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Positron-emission tomography reporter gene expression imaging in rat myocardium.
Circulation - 21 Jan 2003
Inubushi Masayuki, Wu Joseph C, Gambhir Sanjiv S, Sundaresan Gobalakrishnan, Satyamurthy Nagichettiar, Namavari Mohammad, Yee Simon, Barrio Jorge R, Stout David, Chatziioannou Arion F, Wu Lily, Schelbert Heinrich R
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BACKGROUND: This study examines the quantitative accuracy, detection sensitivity, and time course of imaging the expression of a mutant herpes simplex type-1 virus thymidine kinase (HSV1-sr39tk) PET reporter gene in rat myocardium by using the PET reporter probe 9-(4-[18F]-Fluoro-3-Hydroxymethylbutyl)-Guanine ([18F]-FHBG) and a small-animal PET (microPET). METHODS AND RESULTS: In 40 rats, adenovirus expressing...
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