Fetal magnetic resonance imaging as a complement to fetal ultrasonography

Ultrasound Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-22

  Bulas, Dorothy ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal anomalies; Fetus; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

AGYRIA; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTIFACT; BONE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLOACAL EXTROPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DUODENUM ATRESIA; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL MALFORMATION; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMANGIOMA; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; INFERIOR VERMIS HYPOPLASIA; INTESTINE ATRESIA; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG MALFORMATION; LUNG SEQUESTRATION; MEGA CISTERNA MAGNA; MEGALOENCEPHALY; MICROGYRIA; NECK TUMOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OMPHALOCELE; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PONTOCEREBELLAR HYPOPLASIA; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALOSYNAPSIS; SAFETY; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SCREENING; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TERATOMA; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; VENTRICULOMEGALY;

EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34247575257     PISSN: 08948771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ruq.0000263841.69689.a7     Document Type: Review

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