High-resolution X-ray microtomography is a sensitive method to detect vascular calcification in living rats with chronic renal failure

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2110-2116

  Persy, Veerle ^a   Postnov, Andrei ^a   Neven, Ellen ^a   Dams, Geert ^a   De Broe, Marc ^a   D'Haese, Patrick ^a   De Clerck, Nora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ectopic calcification; Imaging; Kidney; Micro CT; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CALCIUM; CREATININE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UREMIA; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747403815     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000236200.02726.f7     Document Type: Article

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