Volume of Structures in the Fetal Brain Measured with a New Semiautomated Method.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Measuring the volume of fetal brain structures is challenging due to fetal motion, low resolution, and artifacts caused by maternal tissue. Our aim was to introduce a new, simple, Matlab-based semiautomated method to measure the volume of structures in the fetal brain and present normal volumetric curves of the structures measured.

Materials and methods

The volume of the supratentorial brain, left and right hemispheres, cerebellum, and left and right eyeballs was measured retrospectively by the new semiautomated method in MR imaging examinations of 94 healthy fetuses. Four volume ratios were calculated. Interobserver agreement was calculated with the intraclass correlation coefficient, and a Bland-Altman plot was drawn for comparison of manual and semi

SUBMITTER: Ber R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7963586 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature