Prenatal ultrasonography is the primary screening modality for the evaluation of fetal pathology. Ultrafast fetal MRI is a recent development that examines the fetus in utero. The short acquisition times (as short as 400 ms/slice) allow to picture freeze the fetus without the need for fetal sedation. The high spatial resolution, good contrast-to-noise ratio, and the multiplanar capabilities are especially advantageous in pathologies of the fetal central nervous system (CNS). Fetal MRI currently serves as a second-line imaging tool for complex fetal cerebral malformations and pathologies. Fetal ventriculomegaly, lesions within the posterior fossa, and abnormalities in cerebral myelination, migration, and sulcation are particularly well identified. [References: 42]
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Girard, N., & Huisman, T. A. G. M. (2005). Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Central Nervous System. In Pediatric Neuroradiology (pp. 1219–1253). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26398-5_27
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