DEVELOPMENT OF ULTRASOUND KIDNEY TRANSPLANT GLOMERULOGRAPHY

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to establish kidney transplant glomerulography using ultrasound enhancing agents and to evaluate the glomerular hemodynamics changes in various abnormal conditions in the graft using this method. Methods and Materials: After intravenous bolus injection of US enhancing agents Levovist(TM),the intensity of ultrasound signals obtained from microbubbles in the graft subcapsular ROI (2mm by 20mm oval) including the amounts of glomeruli were counted sequentially by Advance Dynamic Flow (ADF; wide-band Doppler technique). Thus, time intensity curve (TIC) of the signals and it's sev…