Comprehensive comparative study of computed tomography-based estimates of split renal function for potential renal donors: Modified ellipsoid method and other CT-based methods

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 323-329

  Soga, Shigeyoshi ^a,b   Britz Cunningham, Scott ^b   Kumamaru, Kanako Kunishima ^a,b   Malek, Sayeed Khan ^a   Tullius, Stefan G ^a   Rybicki, Frank J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; ellipsoid formula; kidney transplantation; renography; split renal function

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELLIPSOID FORMULA; ELLIPSOID METHOD; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POST-PROCESSING; RENAL FUNCTIONS; RENOGRAPHY; SPLIT RENAL FUNCTION; TOMOGRAPHIC METHODS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 84861499113     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e318251db15     Document Type: Article

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