Carla L Avena-Zampieri, Jana Hutter, Maria Deprez, Kelly Payette, Megan Hall, Alena Uus, Surabhi Nanda, Anna Milan, Paul T Seed, Mary Rutherford, Anne Greenough, Lisa Story
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 MRI. The emergence of advanced MR techniques such as T2* relaxometry in combination with the latest motion correction post-processing tools now facilitates assessment of the metabolic activity/perfusion of fetal pulmonary tissue in vivo. OBJECTIVE: To characterise normal pulmonary development using T2* relaxometry, accounting for fetal motion, across gestation...
March 16, 2023: American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM