Mr Renography: Coherence Investigation between Thin Slab and Whole Kidney Scans
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Purpose: Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Renography (MRR) has the potential to provide useful renal functional information to evaluate renal diseases, especially the diffuse renal disease. The MRR is obtained along with dynamic renal perfusion after administration of an intravenous bolus of gadopentetate dimeglumine, and thus has an advantage of noninvasive examination [1]. However, generation of MR renographic curves currently takes at least ten minutes within the clinical setting, and higher temporal resolution is expected to improve the analysis of renal perfusion [2]. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the MRR of the center coronal thin slab scan can effectively represent the renal functional information in patients with diffuse renal disease.
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