The Emerging Role of Functional MRI for Evaluating Fetal Brain Activity

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 281-288

  Fulford, Jon ^a   Gowland, Penny A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fetal; fMRI; maturation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTIFACT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TERATOGENICITY;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 67650632657     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2009.04.006     Document Type: Review

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