Renal functional MRI: Are we ready for clinical application?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1550-1557

  Chandarana, Hersh ^a   Lee, Vivian S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood oxygen level dependent MRI; Diffusion weighted imaging; Functional renal imaging; MR renography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RENOGRAPHY; REVIEW; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 67049110254     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2390     Document Type: Review

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