A new dynamic renal phantom and its application to scintigraphic studies for pixel basis functional radionuclide imaging

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 473-479

  Karagöz, Irfan ^a   Erogul, Osman ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Functional image; Renal phantom; Renography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

FUNCTIONAL RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RENAL PHANTOM; RENOGRAPHY;

UROLOGY;

RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; OBSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 0032169970     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(98)00028-9     Document Type: Article

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