A simple processing method allowing comparison of renal enhancing volumes derived from standard protal venous phase contrast-enhanced mutidetector CT images to derive a CT estimate of differential renal function with equivalent results to nuclear medicine quantification

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 948, 2006, Pages 935-942

  Fowler, J Charlotte ^a,b   Beadsmoore, C ^a   Gaskarth, M T G ^a   Cheow, H K ^a   Bernal, R ^a   Hegarty, P ^a   Bullock, K N ^a   Taylor, H ^a   Dixon, A K ^a   Peters, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BEDFORD HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLADDER TUMOR; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CYSTITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY COLIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY SIZE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846468361     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/53140218     Document Type: Article

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