RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Comprehensive Renal Function Studies: Technical Aspects
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
JO J. Nucl. Med. Technol.
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 81
OP 84
VO 5
IS 2
A1 Kontzen, Frances N.
A1 Tobin, Michael
A1 Dubovsky, Eva V.
A1 Tauxe, W. Newlon
YR 1977
UL http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/5/2/81.abstract
AB A combined in vitro-in vivo renal function procedure has proved to be an important clinical tool in the nuclear medicine laboratory. This noninvasive test is relatively simple from the patient’s standpoint. For the technologist, however, it involves scintigraphic imaging as well as a complex series of calculations including effective renal plasma flow, excretion rates, bladder retention, etc., all derived from a single injection of 131I-orthoiodohippurate.