Pixel-by-pixel mean transit time without deconvolution

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 345-348

  Dobbeleir, Andre A ^a   Piepsz, Amy ^a   Ham, Hamphrey R ^b  

^a Departments of Nuclear Medicine   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cortical transit; Mean transit time; Parametric image

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY CORTEX; RENOGRAPHY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 43149089851     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3282f4d318     Document Type: Article

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