Reproducibility of 99mTc-mercaptoacetyltriglycine renography: population comparison

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 695-704

  Lezaic, Luka ^a   Hodolic, Marina ^a   Fettich, Jure ^a   Grmek, Marko ^a   Milcinski, Metka ^a  

^a University Medical Centre Ljubljana   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Children; Quality control; Renography; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MERTIATIDE TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFERENTIAL RENAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MERTIATIDE;

EID: 55249086057     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3283013d69     Document Type: Article

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