Pediatric neuroimaging in early childhood and infancy: Challenges and practical guidelines

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-50

  Raschle, Nora ^a,b   Zuk, Jennifer ^a   Ortiz Mantilla, Silvia ^c   Sliva, Danielle D ^a   Franceschi, Angela ^a   Grant, P Ellen ^a,b   Benasich, April A ^c   Gaab, Nadine ^a,b,d  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; FMRI; Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANCY; INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

EID: 84860231954     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06457.x     Document Type: Article

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