title: Renal functional MRI: Are we ready for clinical application?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We review the basics of functional renal imaging and highlight a few clinical applications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Techniques such as contrast-enhanced MR renography, diffusion-weighted imaging, and blood oxygen level-dependent MRI have been investigated in animal models and in a few human studies. Functional renal imaging is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to provide new insight into the pathophysiology of renal disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, New York University Medical Center, New York, 10016, USA. hersh.chandarana@nyumc.org
authors.forename: Hersh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chandarana
authors.forename: Vivian S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007677:Kidney Function Tests / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*