Imaging the Central Nervous System of the Fetus and Neonate provides an authoritative overview of the role of ultrasonography and MR imaging technologies in the examination and assessment of the central nervous system of the fetus and neonate.

Features:

• Serves as an all-encompassing guide to the imaging of abnormalities of the brain, spine, and nervous system of the fetus and neonate
• Demonstrates practices in the use of advanced imaging technologies for accurate CNS diagnosis and prenatal care
• Covers methods to assess hypoxic ischaemic complications in the neonate
• Discusses imaging techniques to analyze haemorrhagic complications in the neonate
• Details current advances in fetal ultrasound, in-utero MR, the MR imaging of the neonatal brain, and post-mortem fetal and neonatal MR

Contents

An Overview of Normal and Abnormal Brain Development

• Early Development of the Neural Tube
• The Supratentorial Brain
• The Infratentorial Brain
• Studies of Malformations of the Posterior Fossa
• Imaging Developmental Brain Abnormalities in Children

Fetal Neuroimaging

• Ultrasound Methods and Anatomy
• Developmental Abnormalities of the Brain Shown by Ultrasound
• MR Methods and Anatomy
• In Utero Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Developmental Abnormalities of the Fetal CNS
• The Balance Between MR and US
• In Utero Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Developmental Abnormalities of the Fetal Cerebellum

Neonatal Neuroimaging

• Neonatal Cranial Ultrasound
• MR of the Neonatal Brain
• Neonatal Hypoxic Ischaemic Brain Injury
• Imaging Intracranial Haemorrhagic in the Neonate and Infant

New Horizons

• Advance in Fetal Ultrasound
• Expected developments in in-utero MR of the Fetal Central Nervous System
• Emerging Options for Imaging Neonatal Anatomy and Function
• Incubators for MR Use
• The Role of MR Imaging Post-Mortem in the Fetus and Neonate

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