Imaging renal structures by X-ray phase-contrast microtomography

Kidney International

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 945-951

  Wu, Jin ^a,b   Takeda, Tohoru ^a   Thet Lwin, Thet ^a   Momose, Atsushi ^c   Sunaguchi, Naoki ^d   Fukami, Tadanori ^d   Yuasa, Tetsuya ^d   Akatsuka, Takao ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

APA hamster; Biomedical imaging; Glomerulus; Renal microstructures; X ray phase contrast microtomography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOWMAN CAPSULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULAR STRUCTURE; HAMSTER; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; KIDNEY TOMOGRAPHY; KIDNEY TUBULE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROTOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 64949145287     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2009.42     Document Type: Article

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