Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 47-55 , January 2008

Measurement of Glomerular Filtration Rate With Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Principles, Limitations, and Expectations

  • Nicolas Grenier, MD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’Imagerie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle, UMR-CNRS 5231 Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France.
    • Service d’Imagerie Diagnostique et Interventionnelle de l’Adulte, Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Nicolas Grenier, MD, Service d’Imagerie Diagnostique et Interventionnelle de l’Adulte, Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Place Amelie Raba Leon, 33076 Bordeaux, France.
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  • Iosif Mendichovszky, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Radiology & Physics Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom.
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  • Baudouin Denis de Senneville, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’Imagerie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle, UMR-CNRS 5231 Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France.
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  • Sébastien Roujol, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’Imagerie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle, UMR-CNRS 5231 Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France.
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  • Pascal Desbarats, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), UMR-CNRS 5800 Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France.
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  • Michael Pedersen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • MR Research Center, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
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  • Kevin Wells, PhD, CEng, CPhys, MInstP

      Affiliations

    • CVSSP, Faculty of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom.
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  • Jorgen Frokiaer, MD, DMSc

      Affiliations

    • MR Research Center, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
    • Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital–Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark.
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  • Isky Gordon, FRCR, FRCP

      Affiliations

    • Radiology & Physics Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom.

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doi: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2007.09.004

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 47-55 , January 2008

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