ArticleJournal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI2016
Fetal lung apparent diffusion coefficient measurement using diffusion-weighted MRI at 3 Tesla: Correlation with gestational age.
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- Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging of the normal fetal lung: a preliminary report.Pediatric radiology · 2026Article
- IVIM-Morph: Motion-compensated quantitative Intra-voxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) analysis for functional fetal lung maturity assessment from diffusion-weighted MRI data.Medical image analysis · 2025Article
- Intravoxel incoherent motion MRI to assess feto-placental diffusion and perfusion properties in small fetuses.La Radiologia medica · 2025Article
- Measurement of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in fetal organs and placenta using 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) across gestational ages.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- Physiological assessment of the fetal body using MRI: current uses and potential directions.The British journal of radiology · 2023Review
- Establishing and Comparing the Normal apparent Diffusion Coefficient Values of Fetal Organs and Placenta Using 1.5 Tesla and 3.0 T MRI at Various Gestational Age.Ethiopian journal of health sciences · 2023Observational
- Fetal lung MRI and features predicting post-natal outcome: a scoping review of the current literature.The British journal of radiology · 2023Article
- Fetal MRI at 3 T: Principles to Optimize Success.Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc · 2023Article
- Reproducibility of 2D versus 3D radiomics for quantitative assessment of fetal lung development: a retrospective fetal MRI study.Insights into imaging · 2023Article
- Assessment of the fetal lungs in utero.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2022Review
- Simultaneous Motion and Distortion Correction Using Dual-Echo Diffusion-Weighted MRI.Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging · 2020Article
- Fetal Echoplanar Imaging: Promises and Challenges.Topics in magnetic resonance imaging : TMRI · 2019Review
- Highlights on MRI of the fetal body.La Radiologia medica · 2018Review
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purposeTo evaluate the feasibility of using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) to assess the fetal lung apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) at 3 Tesla (T). MATERIALS AND
methodsSeventy-one pregnant women (32 second trimester, 39 third trimester) were scanned with a twice-refocused Echo-planar diffusion-weighted imaging sequence with 6 different b-values in 3 orthogonal diffusion orientations at 3T. After each scan, a region-of-interest (ROI) mask was drawn to select a region in the fetal lung and an automated robust maximum likelihood estimation algorithm was used to compute the ADC parameter. The amount of motion in each scan was visually rated.
resultsWhen scans with unacceptable levels of motion were eliminated, the lung ADC values showed a strong association with gestational age (P < 0.01), increasing dramatically between 16 and 27 weeks and then achieving a plateau around 27 weeks.
conclusionWe show that to get reliable estimates of ADC values of fetal lungs, a multiple b-value acquisition, where motion is either corrected or considered, can be performed. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2016;44:1650-1655.
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