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MIRD Pamphlet No. 19: Absorbed Fractions and Radionuclide S Values for Six Age-Dependent Multiregion Models of the Kidney^*

¹ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
³ Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
⁵ Nuclear Physics Enterprises, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
⁶ Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
⁷ Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland

View larger version (83K): [in a new window]   FIGURE 1. Anatomic diagram of kidney. (Adapted from Figure 26.3 with permission of (9).)

View larger version (28K): [in a new window]   FIGURE 2. Three-dimensional representation of computational kidney model. (A) Exterior portion of ellipsoid representing kidney is seen with, at cutting plane, renal pelvis. (B) Cut through kidney reveals 5 medullary pyramids, renal pelvis at organ’s center, and surrounding renal cortex. (C) Cut through pelvis shows medullary pyramids within pelvis. One medullary pyramid is removed to reveal papillae at apex of each pyramid.