Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of renal structure and function related to disease: Technical review of image acquisition, postprocessing, and mathematical modeling steps

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1270-1283

  Jones, Richard A ^a,b   Votaw, John R ^a,c   Salman, Khalil ^a   Sharma, Puneet ^a   Lurie, C ^a   Kalb, Bobby ^a   Martin, Diego R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital of Atlanta   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

kidney; kinetic modeling; MRI; MRU

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTERIAL INPUT FUNCTION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 79958263368     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22335     Document Type: Review

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