An unmet need for the clinical management of chronic kidney disease is a predictive tool of
kidney function during the first decade of the disease, when there is silent loss of glomerular …

Although single-photon-emitting radiotracers have long been the standard for renal
functional molecular imaging, recent years have seen the development of positron emission …

Diuretic scintigraphy includes single-photon emitting radiotracers for planar and single
photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging as well as agents for positron …

In considering the challenges of approaches to clinical imaging, we are faced with choices
that sometimes are impacted by rather dogmatic notions about what is a better or worse …

Radionuclide imaging of the kidneys with gamma cameras involves the use of labeled
molecules seeking functionally critical molecular mechanisms to detect the pathophysiology …

The focus of this review is on the current role of nuclear imaging studies in the clinical
evaluation of patients with acute and chronic renal failure. In this setting nuclear imaging has …

The article by Wakabayashi et al. in this issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (1)
describes the evaluation and potential use of 18F-fluorodeoxy sorbitol as a potential PET …

In recent years, a paradigm shift from single-photon-emitting radionuclide radiotracers
toward positron-emission tomography (PET) radiotracers has occurred in nuclear oncology …

Radiopharmaceuticals for functional renal imaging, including renal blood flow, renal blood
volume, glomerular excretion, and metabolism have been available for some time. This …

Positron emission tomography (PET) is perfectly suited for quantitative imaging of the
kidneys, and the recent improvements in detector technology, computer hardware, and …