Physiological and pharmacological intervention for the purpose of determining organ
functional reserve is a familiar concept in medical testing and in nuclear medicine …

Purpose The purpose of these guidelines is to assist specialists in nuclear medicine in
recommending, performing, interpreting and reporting the results of glomerular filtration rate …

Nuclear medicine techniques play a very important role in the initial diagnosis and follow-up
of many renal diseases in children as they provide unique functional and anatomic …

Renal cortical scintigraphy is used for the detection of the cortical defects of acute
pyelonephritis and scarring related to chronic pyelonephritis. Cortical scintigraphy is able to …

The need to draw regions of interest (ROIs) manually may reduce the convenience and
reliability of estimating renal function from renal scintigraphy. We developed a …

The goal of artificial intelligence, expert systems, decision support systems, and computer-
assisted diagnosis (CAD) in imaging is the development and implementation of software to …

The diagnostic value of renal scintiscans in patients with acute or chronic renal failure has
not been emphasized other than for the estimation of renal size. 131 I OIH, 67 gallium, 99m …

Nuclear nephrourology continues to develop and expand on traditional provocative
physiological maneuvers, such as diuretic and captopril renography. In addition, newer …

Purpose This work presents a novel semi-automated renal region-of-interest (ROI)
determination method that is user friendly, time saving, and yet provides a robust glomerular …