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Magnetic Resonance Fiber Tracking in a Neonate with Hemimegalencephaly |
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| Authors: | Thomas J Re Laura Scarciolla Emi Takahashi Nicola Specchio Bruno Bernardi Daniela Longo |
| Affiliation: | 1. Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School ‐ Radiology, Boston, MA;2. University Campus Biomedico – Radiology, Rome, Italy;3. Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School – Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Fetal and Neonatal Imaging Science Center, Boston, MA;4. Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital – Neurology, Rome, Italy;5. Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital – Neuroradiology, Rome, Italy |
| Abstract: | A magnetic resonance diffusion fiber tracking study in neonate diagnosed with left hemisphere hemimegalencephaly is presented. Despite diffuse morphologic deformities identified in conventional imaging, all major pathways were identifiable bilaterally with minor aberrations in vicinity of morphologic lesions. |
| Keywords: | Hemimegaloencephaly fiber tracking neonate MRI |