Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Fetal whole heart blood flow imaging using 4D cine MRI

  • Thomas A. Roberts,
  • Joshua F. P. van Amerom,
  • Alena Uus,
  • David F. A. Lloyd,
  • Milou P. M. van Poppel,
  • Anthony N. Price,
  • Jacques-Donald Tournier,
  • Chloe A. Mohanadass,
  • Laurence H. Jackson,
  • Shaihan J. Malik,
  • Kuberan Pushparajah,
  • Mary A. Rutherford,
  • Reza Razavi,
  • Maria Deprez,
  • Joseph V. Hajnal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18790-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Three-dimensional imaging of the fetal heart and quantification of blood flow in the surrounding vessels is very challenging because the heart is small and the fetus is free to move in the womb. Here, the authors demonstrate motion-corrected 4D flow MRI of the whole fetal heart and major vessels.