Impact of the background Region of Interest in the relative renal function

• Author(s): Sousa, Eva ; Carapinha, Maria João ; Vaz, Tânia ; Lucena, Filipa ; Vieira, Lina
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/2513
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Nuclear medicine; Renal function; Renal scintigraphy; Urinary tract infection
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Renal scintigraphy with 99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid (99mTc-DMSA) is performed with the aim of detect cortical abnormalities related to urinary tract infection and accurately quantify relative renal function (RRF). For this quantitative assessment Nuclear Medicine Technologist should draw regions of interest (ROI) around each kidney (KROI) and peri-renal background (BKG) ROI although controversy still exists about BKG-ROI. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of the normalization procedure, number and location of BKG-ROI on the RRF in 99mTc-DMSA scintigraphy.