Fig. 1.
Whole kidney identification of individual glomeruli. A: representative axial kidney image from a three-dimensional (3D) MRI dataset from a cationized ferritin (CF)-injected rat. Data were analyzed with a 3D counting algorithm to identify individual glomeruli. Regions defined as glomeruli by the computational 3D counting algorithm were assigned an arbitrary color exclusively for visualization purposes (B). UNx, unilateral nephrectomy; Nglom, whole kidney glomerular numbers. [From Beeman SC and colleagues (5).]