Advances in pediatric neuroimaging.

Publication/Presentation Date

8-1-1998

Abstract

Magnetic resonance evaluation of the pediatric central nervous system is rapidly improving in a number of ways: (1) anatomically with higher resolution; (2) with greater sensitivity to pathological processes characterized by increased water content utilizing fluid attenuated inversion recovery imaging (FLAIR); (3) with greater speed of acquisition with ultrafast (1 s/image) and echo planar imaging techniques (50 ms/image); (4) with measurement of cerebral blood flow as perfusion; (5) with measurement of water proton dispersion (e.g. diffusion imaging); (6) with measurement of biochemical components within tissues with proton spectroscopy; and (7) with evaluation of cortical activation with functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Volume

20

Issue

5

First Page

275

Last Page

289

ISSN

0387-7604

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Pediatrics

PubMedID

9760996

Department(s)

Department of Pediatrics

Document Type

Article

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