Fetal MRI: Reviewing the history, indications, technique, safety and drawbacks

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 576-579

  Shaikh, M S ^a,b   Lombay, B ^a  

^a BAZ County University Hospital   (Hungary)

^b NONE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Congenital abnormality; Fetus; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; REVIEW; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 5044246133     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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