2017 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging(SNMMI), First Place Poster-Molecular Targeting Probes,Simultaneous measurement of glomerular filtration rate and effective renal plasma flow using dynamic contrast-enhanced CTMatsukiyo R IchiharaT Natsume T Doi Y Kataoka Y Hasegawa H Shiroki R KenmochiT, ToyamaH
JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY 10(3) 207-214 2016年5月 [査読有り]
Purpose: Previous studies using dynamic perfusion CT and volume perfusion CT (VPCT) software consistently underestimated the stress myocardial blood flow (MBF) in normal myocardium to be 1.1-1.4 ml/min/g, whilst the O 15-water PET studies demonstr...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY 23(2) 122-131 2016年2月 [査読有り]
Nephron-sparing surgery has been proven to positively impact the postoperative quality of life for the treatment of small renal tumors, possibly leading to functional improvements. Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy is still one of the most demandin...
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING 33(9) 1059-1065 2015年11月 [査読有り]
The purpose of this study was to develop a method to determine time discrepancies between input and myocardial time signal intensity (TSI) curves for accurate estimation of myocardial perfusion with first-pass contrast-enhanced MRI.
Estimation of ...
Takuya Sakaguchi   Takashi Ichihara   Takahiro Natsume   Jingwu Yao   Omair Yousuf   Jeffrey C. Trost   Joao A. C. Lima   Richard T. George   
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING 31(5) 905-914 2015年6月 [査読有り]
The purpose of this study was to develop a method for automatic and stable determination of the optimal time range for fitting with a Patlak plot model in order to measure myocardial perfusion using coronary X-ray angiography images. A conventiona...