Impact of the background Region of Interest in the relative renal function


Autoria(s): Sousa, Eva; Carapinha, Maria João; Vaz, Tânia; Lucena, Filipa; Vieira, Lina
Data(s)

17/05/2013

17/05/2013

01/10/2011

Resumo

Renal scintigraphy with 99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid (99mTc-DMSA) is performed with the aim of detect cortical abnormalities related to urinary tract infection and accurately quantify relative renal function (RRF). For this quantitative assessment Nuclear Medicine Technologist should draw regions of interest (ROI) around each kidney (KROI) and peri-renal background (BKG) ROI although controversy still exists about BKG-ROI. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of the normalization procedure, number and location of BKG-ROI on the RRF in 99mTc-DMSA scintigraphy.

Identificador

Sousa E, Carapinha MJ, Vaz T, Lucena F, Vieira L. Impact of the background Region of Interest in the relative renal function. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2011;38(2 Suppl):S444.

1619-7089

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/2513

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Springer

Relação

http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00259-011-1911-0.pdf

Direitos

openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Nuclear medicine #Renal function #Renal scintigraphy #Urinary tract infection
Tipo

conferenceObject