Imaging Islets of Langerhans by Positron Emission Tomography : Quantification of Beta-Cell Mass in the Native Pancreas and the Islet Graft
Type 1 and 2 Diabetes Mellitus are a growing health problem throughout the world. There is an increasing need for methodologies, which are both reliable and non-invasive to measure the amount of insulin-producing tissue (Beta-cell mass, or BCM), as well as rapidly quantify changes in the BCM due to...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Enheten för radiologi
2011
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-136372 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-7978-7 |