Radiologic imaging of the renal parenchyma structure and function

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 348-359

  Grenier, Nicolas ^a   Merville, Pierre ^b   Combe, Christian ^a  

^a HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ANISOTROPY; BOLD SIGNAL; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CELL THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FLUORINE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY METABOLISM; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; NEPHRITIS; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PH; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RENOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TISSUE PERFUSION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; X IRRADIATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENCHYMA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

OXYGEN;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PARENCHYMAL TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84963615026     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2016.44     Document Type: Review

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