Quantitative Assessment of Normal Fetal Brain Myelination Using Fast Macromolecular Proton Fraction Mapping.

Vasily L Yarnykh I Y Prihod'ko Andrey A Savelov A M Korostyshevskaya

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2018)

Myelin is the main factor determining macromolecular proton fraction in brain tissues. Macromolecular proton fraction mapping is sensitive to the earliest stages of the fetal brain myelination and can be implemented in a clinical setting.

Keyphrases

white matter
resting state
high resolution
functional connectivity
gene expression
cerebral ischemia
multiple sclerosis
mass spectrometry
blood brain barrier