Fetal Cerebral Magnetic Resonance Imaging Beyond Morphology

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 465-475

  Jakab, András ^a   Pogledic, Ivana ^a   Schwartz, Ernst ^a   Gruber, Gerlinde ^b   Mitter, Christian ^a   Brugger, Peter C ^a   Langs, Georg ^a,c   Schöpf, Veronika ^a,d,e   Kasprian, Gregor ^a   Prayer, Daniela ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e BIOTECHMED GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

BIOMARKERS; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84983112997     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: 15585034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2015.06.003     Document Type: Article

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