Relative 99mTc-MAG3 renal uptake: Reproducibility and accuracy

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 972-976

  Piepsz, Amy ^a   Tondeur, Marianne ^b   Ham, Hamphrey ^b  

^a SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

99mTc dimercaptosuccinic acid; 99mTc mercaptoacetyltriglycine; Accuracy; Relative renal uptake; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

MERTIATIDE TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MERTIATIDE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032587182     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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