Quantification of deep gray matter in preterm infants at term-equivalent age using manual volumetry of 3-tesla magnetic resonance images

Pediatrics

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 759-765

  Srinivasan, Latha ^a,b   Dutta, Robin ^a   Counsell, Serena J ^b   Allsop, Joanna M ^b   Boardman, James P ^a,b   Rutherford, Mary A ^b   Edwards, A David ^a,b  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia and thalamus; Magnetic resonance volumetry; Preterm infants

Indexed keywords

IBUPROFEN;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFARCTION; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; TERM BIRTH; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

BASAL GANGLIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERM BIRTH; THALAMUS;

EID: 34147119701     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-2508     Document Type: Article

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