Neuroimaging and the timing of fetal and neonatal brain injury.
Current and advanced structural and functional neuroimaging techniques are presented along with guidelines for utilization and principles of imaging diagnosis in fetal and neonatal central nervous system abnormalities. Pattern of injury, timing issues, and differential diagnosis are addressed with emphasis on neurovascular disease. Ultrasonography and computed tomography provide relatively rapid and important screening information regarding gross macrostructural abnormalities. However, current and advanced MRI techniques often provide more definitive macrostructural, microstructural, and functional imaging information.
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University Medical Center, 75 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
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D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal