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Nuklearmedizin 1990; 29(04): 170-176
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1629527
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Measurement of Renal Parenchymal Transit Time of 99mTc-MAG3 Using Factor Analysis

Messung der renalen parenchymalen Durchgangszeit von 99mTc-MAG 3 unter Verwendung der Faktoranalyse
C. D. Russell
1   From the Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Alabama Hospital, and the Nuclear Medicine Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
,
M. V. Yester
1   From the Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Alabama Hospital, and the Nuclear Medicine Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
,
Eva V. Dubovsky
1   From the Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Alabama Hospital, and the Nuclear Medicine Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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Received: 29 January 1990

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04 February 2018 (online)

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Renal parenchymal transit time of the recently introduced radiopharmaceutical 99mTc-MAG3 (mercaptoacetylglycylglylcylglycinel) was measured in 37 kidneys, using factor analysis to separate parenchymal activity from that in the collecting system. A new factor algorithm was employed, based on prior interpolative background subtraction and use of the fact that the initial slope of the collecting system factor time-activity curve must be zero. The only operator intervention required was selection of a rectangular region enclosing the kidney (by identifying two points at opposite corners). Transit time was calculated from the factor time-activity curves both by deconvolution of the parenchymal factor curve and also by measuring the appearance time for collecting system activity from the collecting system factor curve. There was substantial agreement between the two methods. Factor analysis led to a narrower range of normal values than a conventional cortical region-of-interest method, presumably by decreasing crosstalk from the collecting system. In preliminary trials, the parenchymal transit time did not well separate four obstructed from seventeen unobstructed kidneys, but it successfully (p <0.05) separated six transplanted kidneys with acute rejection or acute tubular necrosis from 10 normal transplants.

Zusammenfassung

Bei 37 Nieren wurde die renale Durchflußzeit des neuen Radiopharmazeutikums 99mTc-MAG3 unter Benutzung der Faktorenanalyse gemessen. Der Algorithmus erlaubt getrennte Messung von Parenchymaktivität und Aktivität im Sammelrohrsystem. Er basiert auf interpolativer Hintergrundsubtraktion und der Tatsache, daß die Initialsteigung der Zeitaktivitätskurve des Sammelrohrfaktors Null sein muß. Der einzige nicht computergesteuerte Eingriff bestand in der Auswahl eines die Niere umgebenden Rechtecks (definiert durch zwei ge genüberliegende Eckpunkte). Die Durchflußzeit wurde von den Faktorenkurven sowohl durch Dekonvolution des Parenchymfaktors als auch durch die Messung der Erscheinungszeit im Sammelrohrsystem berechnet. Beide Methoden ergaben ähnliche Resultate. Die Faktorenanalyse ergab einen kleineren Normwertbereich als die konventionelle Definition einer Region über der Nierenrinde, wahrscheinlich aufgrund geringeren “crosstalks” vom Sammelrohrsystem. In vorläufigen Versuchen waren Nierenobstruktion (n = 4) und Nichtobstruktion (n = 17) nicht klar unterscheidbar, während akute Tubulusnekrose oder akute Abstoßung transplantierter Nieren (n = 6) von erfolgreich transplantierten Nieren (n = 10) klar unterschieden werden konnten (p <0,05).

 

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