Fetal magnetic resonance imaging at 3.0 T

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 119-131

  Welsh, Robert C ^a   Nemec, Ursula ^b   Thomason, Moriah E ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0 T; Fetal; MRI

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD SAFETY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FETUS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 84866073307     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: 15361004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RMR.0b013e318267f932     Document Type: Article

References (107)

1. Badash L. Marie Curie: In the laboratory and on the battlefield. Phys Today. 2003;9:37-43.
2. Smith FW, Adam AH, Phillips WD. NMR imaging in pregnancy. Lancet. 1983;1:61-62.
3. Girard N, Gouny SC, Viola A, et al. Assessment of normal fetal brain maturation in utero by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med. 2006;56:768-775.
4. Prayer D. Fetal MRI. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag; 2011.
5. Levine D, Barnes PD, Edelman RR. Obstetric MR imaging. Radiology. 1999;211:609-617.
6. Zaretsky MV, Reichel TF, McIntire DD, et al. Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging to ultrasound in the estimation of birth weight at term. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2003;189:1017-1020.
7. Brugger PC, Stuhr F, Lindner C, et al. Methods of fetal MR: Beyond T2-weighted imaging. Eur J Radiol. 2006;57:172-181.
8. Bulas D. Fetal magnetic resonance imaging as a complement to fetal ultrasonography. Ultrasound Q. 2007;23:3-22.
9. Reiser MF, Semmler W, Hricak H. Magnetic Resonance Tomography. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag; 2007.
10. Jackson HA, Panigrahy A. Fetal magnetic resonance imaging: the basics. Pediatr Ann. 2008;37:388-393.
11. Chen MM, Coakley FV, Kaimal A, et al. Guidelines for computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging use during pregnancy and lactation. Obstet Gynecol. 2008;112:333-340.
12. Jokhi RP, Whitby EH. Magnetic resonance imaging of the fetus. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2010;53:18-28.
13. Brugger PC, Prayer D. Actual imaging time in fetal MRI. Eur J Radiol. 2011;81:1-3.
14. Bottomley PA, Foster TH, Argersinger RE, et al. A review of normal tissue hydrogenNMRrelaxation times and relaxation mechanisms from 1 to 100 MHz: dependence on tissue type, NMR frequency, temperature, species, excision, and age. Med Phys. 1984;11:425.
15. Prayer D, Kasprian G, Krampl E, et al. MRI of normal fetal brain development. Eur J Radiol. 2006;57:199-216.
16. 1-maps. Magn Reson Imaging. 2004;22:565-572.
17. Williams LA, Gelman N, Picot PA, et al. Neonatal Brain: regional variability of in vivo MR imaging relaxation rates at 3.0 T-initial experience. Radiology. 2005;235:595-603.
18. Duyn JH, Tan CX, van Gelderen P, et al. High-sensitivity single-shot perfusion-weighted fMRI. Magn Reson Med. 2001;46:88-94.
19. Yongbi MN, Fera F, Mattay VS, et al. Simultaneous BOLD/perfusion measurement using dual-echo FAIR and UNFAIR: sequence comparison at 1.5T and 3.0T. Magn Reson Imaging. 2001;19: 1159-1165.
20. Yongbi MN, Fera F, Yang Y, et al. Pulsed arterial spin labeling: comparison of multisection baseline and functional MR imaging perfusion signal at 1.5 and 3.0 T: initial results in six subjects. Radiology. 2002;222:569-575.
21. Fera F, Yongbi MN, van Gelderen P, et al. EPI-BOLD fMRI of human motor cortex at 1.5 T and 3.0 T: sensitivity dependence on echo time and acquisition bandwidth. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2004;19:19-26.
22. Hussain SM, Wielopolski PA, Martin DR. Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging at 3.0 T: problem or a promise for the future? Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2005;16:325-335.
23. Stanisz GJ, Odrobina EE, Pun J, et al. T1, T2 relaxation and magnetization transfer in tissue at 3T. Magn Reson Med. 2005;54: 507-512.
24. Rohrer M, Bauer H, Mintorovitch J, et al. Comparison of magnetic properties of MRI contrast media solutions at different magnetic field strengths. Invest Radiol. 2005;40:715-724.
25. Merkle EM. Abdominal MRI at 3.0 T: the basics revisited. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2006;186:1524-1532.
26. Lauzon ML. Time-efficient breath-hold abdominal MRI at 3.0 T. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2006;187:649-657.
27. Schmidt GP, Wintersperger B, Graser A, et al. High-resolution whole-body magnetic resonance imaging applications at 1.5 and 3 Tesla: a comparative study. Invest Radiol. 2007;42:449-459.
28. Cornfeld D, Weinreb J. Simple changes to 1.5-T MRI abdomen and pelvis protocols to optimize results at 3 T. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2008;190:W140-W150.
29. Homann H, Börnert P, Eggers H, et al. Toward individualized SAR models and in vivo validation. Magn Reson Med. 2011;66:1767-1776.
30. Helle M, Jerosch-Herold M, Voges I, et al. Improved MRI of the neonatal heart: feasibility study using a knee coil. Pediatr Radiol. 2011;41:1429-1432.
31. Mürtz P, Kaschner M, Träber F, et al. Diffusion-weighted whole-body MRI with background body signal suppression: technical improvements at 3.0 T. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011;35:456-461.
32. Nehrke K, Börnert P. DREAM-a novel approach for robust, ultrafast, multislice B(1) mapping. Magn Reson Med. 2012;DOI10.1002/mrm.24158. [Epub ahead of print].
33. Bernstein MA, King KF, Zhou XJ. Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences. San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press; 2004.
34. Kanal E, Barkovich AJ, Bell C, et al. ACR guidance document for safe MR practices: 2007. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2007;188:1447-1474.
35. Triulzi F, Manganaro L, Volpe P. Fetal magnetic resonance imaging: indications, study protocols and safety. Radiol Med. 2011;116: 337-350.
36. Levine D, Zuo C, Faro CB, et al. Potential heating effect in the gravid uterus during MR HASTE imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2001;13:856-861.
37. Hand JW, Li Y, Thomas EL, et al. Prediction of specific absorption rate in mother and fetus associated with MRI examinations during pregnancy. Magn Reson Med. 2006;55:883-893.
38. US Food and Drug Administration. Criteria for Significant Risk Investigations of Magnetic Resonance Diagnostic Devices. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2003;1-5.
39. International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection. Medical magnetic resonance (MR) procedures: protection of patients. Health Phys. 2004;87:197-216.
40. Gowland PA, De Wilde J. Temperature increase in the fetus due to radio frequency exposure during magnetic resonance scanning. Phys Med Biol. 2008;53:L15-L18.
41. Hand JW, Li Y, Hajnal JV. Numerical study of RF exposure and the resulting temperature rise in the foetus during a magnetic resonance procedure. Phys Med Biol. 2010;55:913-930.
42. Kikuchi S, Saito K, Takahashi M, et al. Temperature elevation in the fetus from electromagnetic exposure during magnetic resonance imaging. Phys Med Biol. 2010;55:2411-2426.
43. Neufeld E, Gosselin M-C, Murbach M, et al. Analysis of the local worst-case SAR exposure caused by an MRI multi-transmit body coil in anatomical models of the human body. Phys Med Biol. 2011;56:4649-4659.
44. Story L, Damodaram MS, Allsop JM, et al. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the fetus. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2011;158:3-8.
45. Fenton BW, Lin CS, Seydel F, et al. Lecithin can be detected by volume-selected proton MR spectroscopy using a 1.5 T whole-body scanner: a potentially non-invasive method for the prenatal assessment of fetal lung maturity. Prenat Diagn. 1998;18:1263-1266.
46. Cetin I, Barberis B, Brusati V, et al. Lactate detection in the brain of growth-restricted fetuses with magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011;205:350.e1-350.e7.
47. Rijn AMR-V, Groenendaal F, Stoutenbeek P, et al. Lactate in the foetal brain: detection and implications. Acta Paediatrica. 2007;93: 937-940.
48. Bhattacharyya PK, Lowe MJ, Phillips MD. Spectral quality control in motion-corrupted single-voxel J-difference editing scans: an interleaved navigator approach. Magn Reson Med. 2007;58: 808-812.
49. Keating B, Deng W, Roddey JC, et al. Prospective motion correction for single-voxel 1H MR spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med. 2010;64: 672-679.
50. Keating B, Ernst T. Real-time dynamic frequency and shim correction for single-voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med. 2012;DOI10.1002/mrm.24129. [Epub ahead of print].
51. Germuska M, Tunariu N, Leach MO, et al. An evaluation of motion compensation strategies and repeatability for abdominal (1) H MR spectroscopy measurements in volunteer studies and clinical trials. NMR Biomed. 2012;25:859-865.
52. 0 corrected single voxel spectroscopy using volumetric navigators. Magn Reson Med. 2011;66:314-323.
53. Lange T, Maclaren J, Buechert M, et al. Spectroscopic imaging with prospective motion correction and retrospective phase correction. Magn Reson Med. 2012;67:1506-1514.
54. Ogawa S. Brain magnetic resonance imaging with contrast dependent on blood oxygenation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990;87:9868-9872.
55. Ogawa S, Tank DW, Menon R, et al. Intrinsic signal changes accompanying sensory stimulation: functional brain mapping with magnetic resonance imaging. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1992;89:5951-5955.
56. Hykin J, Moore R, Duncan K, et al. Fetal brain activity demonstrated by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Lancet. 1999;354: 645-646.
57. Moore RJ, Vadeyar SH, Fulford J, et al. Antenatal determination of fetal brain activity in response to an acoustic stimulus using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Hum Brain Mapp. 2001;12:94-99.
58. Fulford J, Vadeyar SH, Dodampahala SH, et al. Fetal brain activity in response to a visual stimulus. Hum Brain Mapp. 2003;20:239-245.
59. Fulford J, Vadeyar SH, Dodampahala SH, et al. Fetal brain activity and hemodynamic response to a vibroacoustic stimulus. Hum Brain Mapp. 2004;22:116-121.
60. Schöpf V, Kasprian G, Brugger PC, et al. Watching the fetal brain at "rest." Int J Dev Neurosci. 2012;30:11-17.
61. Haacke EM. Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Physical Principles and Sequence Design. New York, NY: J. Wiley & Sons; 1999.
62. Schenck JF. The role of magnetic susceptibility in magnetic resonance imaging: MRI magnetic compatibility of the first and second kinds. Med Phys. 1996;23:815-850.
63. Krüger G, Kastrup A, Glover GH. Neuroimaging at 1.5 T and 3.0 T: comparison of oxygenation-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2001;45:595-604.
64. Wedegartner U, Popovych S, Yamamura J, et al. R2* in fetal sheep brains during hypoxia: MR imaging at 3.0 T versus that at 1.5 T. Radiology. 2009;252:394-400.
65. Westlye LT, Walhovd KB, Dale AM, et al. Differentiating maturational and aging-related changes of the cerebral cortex by use of thickness and signal intensity. NeuroImage. 2010;52:172-185.
66. Rivkin MJ, Wolraich D, Als H, et al. Prolonged T*2 values in newborn versus adult brain: implications for fMRI studies of newborns. Magn Reson Med. 2004;51:1287-1291.
67. Gonzalez-Castillo J, Roopchansingh V, Bandettini PA, et al. Physiological noise effects on the flip angle selection in BOLD fMRI. NeuroImage. 2011;54:2764-2778.
68. Kim K, Habas PA, Rousseau F, et al. Intersection based motion correction of multislice MRI for 3-D in utero fetal brain image formation. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2010;29:146-158.
69. Basser PJ, Pierpaoli C. Microstructural and physiological features of tissues elucidated by quantitative-diffusion-tensor MRI. J Magn Reson B. 1996;111:209-219.
70. Basser PJ, Pajevic S, Pierpaoli C, et al. In vivo fiber tractography using DT-MRI data. Magn Reson Med. 2000;44:625-632.
71. Kasprian G, Brugger PC, Weber M, et al. In utero tractography of fetal white matter development. NeuroImage. 2008;43:213-224.
72. Kasprian G, Del Río M, Prayer D. Fetal diffusion imaging: pearls and solutions. Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2010;21:387-394.
73. Jiang S, Xue H, Counsell S, et al. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the brain in moving subjects: application to in-utero fetal and ex-utero studies. Magn Reson Med. 2009;62:645-655.
74. Oubel E, Koob M, Studholme C, et al. Reconstruction of scattered data in fetal diffusion MRI. Med Image Anal. 2012;16:28-37.
75. Basser P, Jones D. Diffusion-tensor MRI: theory, experimental design and data analysis-a technical review. NMR Biomed. 2002;15: 456-467.
76. Righini A, Bianchini E, Parazzini C, et al. Apparent diffusion coefficient determination in normal fetal brain: a prenatal MR imaging study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2003;24:799-804.
77. Kim D-H, Chung S, Vigneron DB, et al. Diffusion-weighted imaging of the fetal brain in vivo. Magn Reson Med. 2007;59:216-220.
78. Schneider JF, Confort-Gouny S, Fur Y, et al. Diffusion-weighted imaging in normal fetal brain maturation. Eur Radiol. 2007;17: 2422-2429.
79. Cartry C, Viallon V, Hornoy P, et al. [Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of the normal fetal brain: marker of fetal brain maturation]. J Radiol. 2010;91:561-566.
80. Dong Q, Welsh RC, Chenevert TL, et al. Clinical applications of diffusion tensor imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2003;19:6-18.
81. Merkle EM, Dale BM, Paulson EK. Abdominal MR imaging at 3T. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2006;14:17-26.
82. Mürtz P, Kaschner M, Träber F, et al. Evaluation of dual-source parallel RF excitation for diffusion-weighted whole-body MR imaging with background body signal suppression at 3.0 T. Eur J Radiol. 2011;1-10.
83. Grant PE. Nonconventional MRI for fetal imaging. Proceedsings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Montreal, Canada, 2011:1-1.
84. Feinberg DA, Moeller S, Smith SM, et al. Multiplexed echo planar imaging for subsecond whole-brain fMRI and fast diffusion imaging. PLoS ONE. 2010;5:e15710.
85. Clouchoux C, Guizard N, Evans AC, et al. Normative fetal brain growth by quantitative in vivo magnetic resonance imaging. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011;206:1-8.
86. Yang Y, Roussotte F, Kan E, et al. Abnormal cortical thickness alterations in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and their relationships with facial dysmorphology. Cereb Cortex. 2012;22:1170-1179.
87. Hüppi PS. Cortical development in the fetus and the newborn: advanced MR techniques. Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2011;22:33-38.
88. Kostović I, Judas M. The development of the subplate and thalamocortical connections in the human foetal brain. Acta Paediatrica. 2010;99:1119-1127.
89. Tau GZ, Peterson BS. Normal development of brain circuits. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2009;35:147-168.
90. Glenn OA. Normal development of the fetal brain by MRI. Semin Perinatol. 2009;33:208-219.
91. Kostovic I, Vasung L. Insights from in vitro fetal magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral development. Semin Perinatol. 2009;33:220-233.
92. Limperopoulos C, Clouchoux C. Advancing fetal brain MRI: targets for the future. Semin Perinatol. 2009;33:289-298.
93. Marsh R, Gerber AJ, Peterson BS. Neuroimaging studies of normal brain development and their relevance for understanding childhood neuropsychiatric disorders. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008;47:1233-1251.
94. Rados M, Judas M, Kostović I. In vitro MRI of brain development. Eur J Radiol. 2006;57:187-198.
95. Fogliarini C, Chaumoitre K, Chapon F, et al. Assessment of cortical maturation with prenatal MRI. Eur Radiol. 2005;15:1781-1789.
96. Huisman TAGM, Martin E, Kubik-Huch R, et al. Fetal magnetic resonance imaging of the brain: technical considerations and normal brain development. Eur Radiol. 2002;12:1941-1951.
97. Kostović I, Judas M, Rados M, et al. Laminar organization of the human fetal cerebrum revealed by histochemical markers and magnetic resonance imaging. Cereb Cortex. 2002;12:536-544.
98. Chong BW, Babcook CJ, Pang D, et al. A magnetic resonance template for normal cerebellar development in the human fetus. Neurosurgery. 1997;41:924-928 [discussion 928-9].
99. Molliver ME, Kostovic I, van der Loos H. The development of synapses in cerebral cortex of the human fetus. Brain Res. 1973;50:403-407.
100. Gholipour A, Estroff JA, Warfield SK. Robust super-resolution volume reconstruction from slice acquisitions: application to fetal brain MRI. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2010;29:1739-1758.
101. Neustadter DM, Chiel HJ. Imaging Freely Moving Subjects Using Continuous Interleaved Orthogonal Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Magn Reson Imaging. 2004;22:329-343.
102. Rousseau F, Glenn O, Iordanova B, et al. A Novel Approach to High Resolution Fetal Brain MR Imaging. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2005;8:548-555.
103. Rousseau F, Kim K, Studholme C, et al. On Super-Resolution for Fetal Brain MRI. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2010;13:355-362.
104. Habas PA, Scott JA, Roosta A, et al. Early folding patterns and asymmetries of the normal human brain detected from in utero MRI. Cereb Cortex. 2012;22:13-25.
105. Scott JA, Hamzelou KS, Rajagopalan V, et al. 3D morphometric analysis of human fetal cerebellar development. Cerebellum. 2011;1-10.
106. Habas PA, Kim K, Rousseau F, et al. Atlas-based segmentation of developing tissues in the human brain with quantitative validation in young fetuses. Hum Brain Mapp. 2010;31:1348-1358.
107. Chapman T, Matesan M, Weinberger E, et al. Digital atlas of fetal brain MRI. Pediatr Radiol. 2010;40:153-162.