Fetal posterior fossa volume: Assessment with MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 238, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 997-1003

  Chen, Sara C ^a   Simon, Erin M ^a,b   Haselgrove, John C ^b   Bilaniuk, Larissa T ^a,b   Sutton, Leslie N ^a,b   Johnson, Mark P ^a,b   Shera, David M ^a,b   Zimmerman, Robert A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33344474171     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2383041283     Document Type: Article

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