Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 1 , Pages 3-15 , January 2006

Update of Renal Imaging

  • Nicolas Grenier, MD

      Affiliations

    • Service d’Imagerie Diagnostique et Interventionnelle de l’Adulte, Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Bordeaux cedex, France.
    • ERT CNRS “Imagerie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle,” Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Nicolas Grenier, MD, Service d’Imagerie Diagnostique et Interventionnelle de l’Adulte, Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Place Amélie Raba Léon, 33,076 - Bordeaux cedex, France.
    • ,
  • Olivier Hauger, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Service d’Imagerie Diagnostique et Interventionnelle de l’Adulte, Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Bordeaux cedex, France.
    • ERT CNRS “Imagerie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle,” Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France.
    • ,
  • Angela Cimpean, MD

      Affiliations

    • Service d’Imagerie Diagnostique et Interventionnelle de l’Adulte, Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Bordeaux cedex, France.
    • ,
  • Vinçent Pérot, MD

      Affiliations

    • Service d’Imagerie Diagnostique et Interventionnelle de l’Adulte, Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Bordeaux cedex, France.

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doi: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2005.08.001

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 1 , Pages 3-15 , January 2006

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