Semi-automated renal region of interest selection method using the double-threshold technique: Inter-operator variability in quantitating 99mTc-MAG3 renal uptake

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-59

  Tomaru, Yumi ^a   Inoue, Tomio ^a,b   Oriuchi, Noboru ^a   Takahashi, Kazukuni ^a   Endo, Keigo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automated region of interest; Camera based clearance; Inter operator variability; Technetium 99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine; Threshold technique

Indexed keywords

MERTIATIDE TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; LIVER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPLEEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031907626     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050194     Document Type: Article

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