Development of the fetal cerebral cortex in the second trimester: Assessment with 7T postmortem MR imaging

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1462-1467

  Zhang, Z ^a   Hou, Z ^a   Lin, X ^a,b   Teng, G ^c   Meng, H ^a   Zang, F ^c   Fang, F ^c   Liu, S ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG MEDICAL IMAGING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c MEDICAL SCHOOL OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CALCARINE SULCUS; CENTRAL SULCUS; CHRONOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRECENTRAL SULCUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SYLVIAN FISSURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRUM; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FRONTAL LOBE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORGAN SIZE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84880779558     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3406     Document Type: Article

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