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Article: Small animal in vivo imaging systems.
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- Instrument Business Outlook
- Article date:
- July 31, 2004
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Among the many new techniques being introduced to improve drug discovery and development, small animal in vivo imaging has quickly gained attention. Closely related to diagnostic imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT), photon emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in many ways, small animal in vivo imaging benefits from such familiarity. Many of the companies that manufacture and sell the systems have a history in the diagnostic imaging market, providing them with the ties to pharmaceutical companies and academia as well as the resources necessary to introduce a new technology. So far this year, business developments at a number of ...