Elucidating Metabolic Maturation in the Healthy Fetal Brain Using 1H-MR Spectroscopy.

I E Evangelou Adre J du Plessis Gilbert Vezina R Noeske Catherine Limperopoulos

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2015)

We characterized metabolic changes in the normal fetal brain during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and derived normative metabolic indices. These reference values can be used to study metabolic maturation of the fetal brain in vivo.

Keyphrases

resting state
white matter
functional connectivity
cerebral ischemia
multiple sclerosis
magnetic resonance imaging
preterm birth
pregnant women