Evaluation of relative renal function for patients who had undergone simultaneous liver-kidney transplants using Tc-99m-MAG3 scintigraphy with attenuation correction from anatomical images and SPECT/CT

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 738-744

  Palmer, Matthew R ^a   Donohoe, Kevin J ^a   Francis, Jean M ^a   A Mandelbrot, Didier ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; kidney transplant; renal scintigraphy; single photon emission computed tomography computed tomography

Indexed keywords

MERTIATIDE TC 99M;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT; RENOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PHOTONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MERTIATIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960019028     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328347e958     Document Type: Article

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