Fetal Brain Imaging

Fetal Brain Imaging

Fetal brain imaging SWISS SOCIETY OF NEONATOLOGY

3 INTRODUCTION Ultrasound imaging (US) is the screening modality of choice for the detection of fetal abnormalities. It has many advantages over other imaging modalities in that images have high anatomical resolution and are performed in " real time " , allowing dynamic assessment of the fetus. In addition, ultrasound is widely available at relatively a low cost compared with other imaging moda...

In utero fetal brain diffusion weighted imaging

Introduction Fetal MR brain imaging is proving to be a powerful modality with which to evaluate the developing fetal brain. Advanced imaging strategies, such as diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have recently been applied to the human fetus [1,2]. The major difficulty of performing DWI of the fetal brain in utero is the presence of motion, which is especially m...

Iranian Brain Imaging Database: A Neuropsychiatric Database of Healthy Brain

Introduction: The Iranian Brain Imaging Database (IBID) was initiated in 2017, with 5 major goals: provide researchers easy access to a neuroimaging database, provide normative quantitative measures of the brain for clinical research purposes, study the aging profile of the brain, examine the association of brain structure and function, and join the ENIGMA consortium. Many prestigious databases...

A Novel Approach to High Resolution Fetal Brain MR Imaging

This paper describes a novel approach to forming high resolution MR images of the human fetal brain. It addresses the key problem of motion of the fetus by proposing a registration refined compounding of multiple sets of orthogonal fast 2D MRI slices, that are currently acquired for clinical studies, into a single high resolution MRI volume. A robust multi-resolution slice alignment is applied ...