Pediatric excretory MR urography: Comparative study of enhanced and non-enhanced techniques

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1423-1427

  Borthne, Arne S ^a   Pierre Jerome, Claude ^a   Gjesdal, Kjell I ^a   Storaas, Tryggve ^a   Courivaud, Frederic ^a   Eriksen, Morten ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Children; Kidney; Magnetic resonance urography

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URETER OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 0038418545     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-002-1750-2     Document Type: Article

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