MR imaging methods for assessing fetal brain development

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 700-711

  Rutherford, Mary ^a   Jiang, Shuzhou ^a   Allsop, Joanna ^a   Perkins, Lucinda ^a   Srinivasan, Latha ^a   Hayat, Tayyib ^a   Kumar, Sailesh ^b   Hajnal, Jo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Fetal; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL MIGRATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FETUS MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

BRAIN; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 42949102551     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20614     Document Type: Review

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