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MRI of the
Neonatal Brain

Edited by

Mary A Rutherford, MD MRCPCH

Honorary Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Paediatrics
Robert Steiner Magnetic Resonance Unit and Department of Paediatrics and Neonatal Medicine,
Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

Contents

• Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Dedication

Part I – Practical issues

• Chapter 1 – Patient preparation, safety and hazards in imaging infants and children
• Chapter 2 – Imaging the preterm infant: practical issues

Part II – Anatomy and development of the immature brain

• Chapter 3 – Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in preterm infants: 24 weeks' gestation to term
• Chapter 4 – Magnetic resonance imaging of the normal infant brain: term to 2 years

Part III – Pathology

• Chapter 5 – Basic cellular reactions of the immature human brain

Part IV – Disorders in the newborn infant

• Chapter 6 – The asphyxiated term infant
• Chapter 7 – Cerebral infarction in the full-term infant
• Chapter 8 – Ischemic lesions in the preterm brain
• Chapter 9 – Hemorrhagic lesions of the newborn brain
• Chapter 10 – Neonatal brain infection
• Chapter 11 – Congenital malformations in the neonate
• Chapter 12 – Vascular malformations of the neonatal brain
• Chapter 13 – Non-accidental injury in the young infant
• Chapter 14 – The neonate with a neuromuscular disorder
• Chapter 15 – Magnetic resonance imaging of the fetal brain
• Chapter 16 – Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the neonatal brain
• Chapter 17 – Metabolic disorders in the neonate
• Chapter 18 – Imaging of brain function during early human development

• Glossary of physics terms