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Examination of Infant Brain Maturation Using Ultra Low Field MRI
Author(s) -
SUHONENPOLVI HANNA,
MÄÄTTÄNEN HELI,
ALANEN ANU,
KATEVUO KALEVI,
TENOVUO ARJA,
KERO PENTTI,
KORMANO MARTTI
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1988.tb10692.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gestational age , small for gestational age , brain development , relaxation (psychology) , pediatrics , appropriate for gestational age , full term , correlation , pregnancy , neuroscience , genetics , geometry , mathematics , biology
ABSTRACT. The brains of 42 newborn infants were examined with MRI at 0.02 T field, and regional variations of T1 relaxation time were measured from the images. There were three groups: 1. full term infants (9), 2. preterm infants (10) and 3. SGA (= small for gestational age) infants (20). Relaxation times showed a correlation to myelination of the brain. The brain of SGA infants showed a large variation in their T1 values.