Assessment of normal pulmonary development using functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The mainstay of assessment of the fetal lungs in clinical practice is via evaluation of pulmonary size, primarily using 2D ultrasound and more recently with anatomical magnetic resonance imaging. The emergence of advanced magnetic resonance techniques such as T2* relaxometry in combination with the latest motion correction post-processing tools now facilitates assessment of the metabolic activity or perfusion of fetal pulmonary tissue in vivo.

Objective

This study aimed to characterize normal pulmonary development using T2* relaxometry, accounting for fetal motion across gestation.

Methods

Datasets from women with uncomplicated pregnancies that delivered at term, were analyzed. All subjects had undergone T2-weighted imaging and T2* relaxometry on a Phillips

SUBMITTER: Avena-Zampieri CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10711505 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature