Intravenous contrast-enhanced dynamic MR urography: Diagnosis of vesicoureteral reflux during bladder filling with time-signal intensity curves

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 349-355

  Kocaoglu, Murat ^a   Bulakbasi, Nail ^a   Ilica, Ahmet Turan ^a   Gok, Faysal ^a   Tayfun, Cem ^a   Somuncu, Ibrahim ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Kidney; MR urography; Reflux; Urography; Voiding cystourethrography

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; GADODIAMIDE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BLADDER FILLING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURVE FITTING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE UROGRAPHY; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME SIGNAL INTENSITY CURVE; TWO DIMENSIONAL FAST FIELD ECHO SEQUENCE; URETER DILATATION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 33746893383     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20637     Document Type: Article

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