Liposomes in ultrasound and gamma scintigraphic imaging.

Methods Enzymol

Departments of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.

Published: February 2004

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