Real-time measurement of renal blood flow in healthy subjects using contrast-enhanced ultrasound

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Kalantarinia, Kambiz ^a   Belcik, J Todd ^b   Patrie, James T ^a   Wei, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Definity; High protein diet; Renal cortical blood flow; Renal hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

PERFLUTREN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY CORTEX; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; SOUND INTENSITY;

EID: 70349637484     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00172.2009     Document Type: Article

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