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Can diffusion-weighted MRI without breath-holding be used to evaluate renal abnormalities?

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology volume 2, pages 126–127 (2006)Cite this article

boxed-textThoeny HC et al. (2005) Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of kidneys in healthy volunteers and patients with parenchymal diseases: initial experience. Radiology 235: 911–917

A diffusion-weighted MRI sequence should be incorporated into the MRI protocol for kidney evaluation, in order to explore the clinical role of this new method

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