Diagnostic Ultrasound - Abdomen and Pelvis

Kidneys
Anatomy: Abdomen
LEFT INTRARENAL ARTERY AND VEIN
Renal cortex
Color aliasing
Intrarenal segmental arteries
Main renal vein
Intrarenal renal artery
Low-resistance renal artery spectral
Doppler waveform
Venous waveform
Segmental renal artery
Renal artery spectral Doppler waveform
with autotrace
Renal Doppler indices
(Top) Longitudinal color Doppler ultrasound of the left kidney shows renal artery branches as red and renal vein branches as blue. There
is some color aliasing in the veins, shown as yellow. (Middle) In this spectral Doppler waveform of a left segmental renal artery, there is
continuous flow throughout the cardiac cycle with a low- resistance pattern. The segmental renal vein shows mild phasicity. (Bottom)
Spectral Doppler waveform of a left segmental renal artery in the transverse plane is shown. Doppler indices are normal: PSV of 37.3
cm/s, EDV of 13.9 cm/s, and resistive index (RI) of 0.63.
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