Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 37, Issue 3 , Pages 371-380 , April 2010

Autoradiography study and SPECT imaging of reporter gene HSV1-tk expression in heart

Received 16 September 2009 ,Revised 17 December 2009 ,Accepted 18 December 2009.

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