Ultrafast MRI of the fetus: An increasingly important tool in prenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1431-1439

  Hosny, Iman A ^a   Elghawabi, Hamed S ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Fetal anomalies; Fetal MRI; Fetal US

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; ARACHNOID CYST; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTEMATOMYELIA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MECKEL SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OMPHALOCELE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAFAST NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WALKER WARBURG SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78449261514     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.024     Document Type: Article

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