Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 9 , Pages 1421-1426 , September 2009

Quantitative Tissue Echogenicity of the Neonatal Brain Assessed by Ultrasound Imaging

  • Nelly F. Padilla

      Affiliations

    • Fetal and Perinatal Medicine Research Group, Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Hospital Clínic-Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques Augusto Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
    • Department of Pediatric Radiology, Hospital Materno-Infantil Vall d'Hebron, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Nelly F. Padilla, M.D., Fetal and Perinatal Medicine Research Group, Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Hospital Clínic, (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Sabino de Arana 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
    • ,
  • Goya Enriquez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Radiology, Hospital Materno-Infantil Vall d'Hebron, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Tomas Jansson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Measurements, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Eduard Gratacos

      Affiliations

    • Fetal and Perinatal Medicine Research Group, Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Hospital Clínic-Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques Augusto Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Edgar Hernandez-Andrade

      Affiliations

    • Fetal and Perinatal Medicine Research Group, Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Hospital Clínic-Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques Augusto Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain

Received 18 June 2008 ,Revised 8 April 2009 ,Accepted 19 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.04.014

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 9 , Pages 1421-1426 , September 2009

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