Basic Principles and Concepts Underlying Recent Advances in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Developing Brain

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-19

  Panigrahy, Ashok ^a   Borzage, Matthew ^a   Blüml, Stefan ^a  

^a Institute for Maternal Fetal Health   (United States)

Author keywords

blood oxygenation level dependent; diffusion tensor imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; near infrared spectroscopy; periventricular leukomalacia

Indexed keywords

INOSITOL; LACTIC ACID; LIPID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNET; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METABOLITE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEWBORN DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE;

EID: 74849125653     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2009.10.001     Document Type: Review

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