Quantitative hepatobiliary scintigraphy aids in the diagnosis of hepatic disease. Two
scintigraphic parameters that have great value in discriminating between hepatocellular and …

MATERIALS AND METhODS Ten conditioned, adult mongrel dogs (6 female, 4 male; body
weight range 14.5 — 29.1 kg; mean 21.39 kg) were obtained from the laboratory animal …

MATERIALS AND METhODS Eighteen adult healthy volunteers (controls) and 24 patients
were studied. The control subjects (12 males and 6 females) ranged in age from 23 to 71 yr …

In this study, heart time‐activity curve, created following intravenous injection of 99mTc‐
mebrofenin were used to quantify hepatic function in normal dogs and dogs with induced …

The extraction of the hepatobiliary radiopharmaceutical 99mTc‐mebrofenin (Choletec) by
the liver can be used to evaluate the severity of hepatocellular disease. The hepatic …

A method based upon the application of mathematical techniques of deconvolution on the
classical compartmental model for the quantitative study of liver function from hepatobiliary …

A nuclear medicine procedure that has been used for quantification of hepatocyte function in
man is applied and validated in the dog. This procedure employs deconvolutional analysis …

Background/aims: The indocyanine green (ICG) clearance test is the most frequently used
test for preoperative assessment of liver parenchymal function but has its limitations. The …

METHODS Anionic clearance mechanism. In three female dogs the distribution and
elimination kinetics of I-131RB and Tc-HIDA were simultaneously evaluated be fore and …

Quantitation of initial uptake of the cholescintigraphy agents, 99m Tc-Lidofenin, 99m Tc-
Disofenin, 99m Tc-Mebrofenin, and 99m Tc-Arclofenin, in short-term cultured rat hepatocytes …