Alterations of Renal Function in Patients with Diabetic Kidney Disease: A BOLD and DTI Study

Figure 1

Examples of the positions of ROIs and pseudocolor pictures of BOLD and DTI images.Legends: An example of the measurement of the ROI on the coronal BOLD image (TE = 15.9 ms) in a 49-year-old woman (a). The ROIs were positioned in the cortex (1, 2, and 3) and medulla (4, 5, and 6) in the upper, middle, and lower parts of each kidney. The ROI had an area of 40–60 mm². A pseudocolor figure of a participant in the DII group (male, 51 years old) was selected, where b/c/d/e correspond to the , , FA, and ADC images, respectively.

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