摘要：Objective:To investigate the correlation of abdominal aorta CT value,renal artery CT value and renal cor-tex thickness with renal cortex CT value on contrast enhanced 64-slice CT images.Methods:96 patients (50 men and 46 women;16~74 years)with normal kidney function,which was confirmed by kidney function test were enrolled in this stud-y,including bilateral kidneys of 92 cases and unilateral kidney of 4 cases (total of 188 kidneys;92 left,96 right).After intra-venous (IV)injection of contrast agent the kidneys of the selected patients were scanned by MDCT.The scans were per-formed in arterial,venous and 3min delayed phases.All statistical analyses were performed by using IBM SPSS 20.0.Graphs were generated using Graph Pad Prism 5 software.Quantitative data were presented as mean ± standard deviation,while qualitative data were presented as frequency (%).P<0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.Results:The mean renal cortex thickness was (5.19±0.81)mm in all kidneys.In the arterial phase,a statistically significant positive correla-tion between renal cortex CT values and abdominal aortic CT values was showed (r= 0.584;P<0.001).A statistically sig-nificant positive correlation between renal cortex CT values and renal cortex thickness was demonstrated (r= 0.533,P<0.0001).Likewise,there was a positive correlation between renal cortex CT value and renal artery CT values (r= 0.43,P<0.001).Conclusion:It is a promising approach to assess the individual kidney function by measuring abdominal aorta CT value,renal artery CT value,renal cortex CT value and renal cortex thickness using contrast MDCT.