Fetal diffusion imaging: Pearls and solutions

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 387-394

  Kasprian, Gregor ^a   Del Río, Maria ^b   Prayer, Daniela ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging; diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; fetus; hypoxic ischemic injury; kidney; lung; malformations of cortical development; prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; URINARY TRACT; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 83755172122     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: 15361004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RMR.0b013e31823e6f80     Document Type: Article

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