Title :
Tracking progressive renal disease with quantitative ultrasonic imaging
Author :
Hall, Timothy J. ; Chaturvedi, Pawan ; Insana, Michael F. ; Wood, John G. ; Khant, Htet ; Zhu, Yanning ; Preston, David ; Cowley, Benjamin D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radiol., Physiol. & Med., Kansas Univ. Med. Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
Abstract :
Using a combination of techniques, we are studying the progression of polycystic kidney disease (PKD) in a rat model as the disease progresses to renal failure. The goal of our work is to use ultrasound to noninvasively detect morphological changes early in the disease process when interventions are most successful and before there is a significant loss in renal function
Keywords :
acoustic microscopy; biomedical ultrasonics; diseases; kidney; integrated backscatter; intravital microscopy; morphological changes; noninvasive detection; polycystic kidney disease; progressive renal disease tracking; quantitative ultrasonic imaging; rat model; renal failure; tissue morphology; Biomedical imaging; Biomembranes; Diseases; Kinetic theory; Medical diagnostic imaging; Morphology; Physiology; Radiology; Rats; Ultrasonic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrasonics Symposium, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sendai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4095-7
DOI :
10.1109/ULTSYM.1998.765088
