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Three-dimensional Rendering and Analysis of Immunolabeled, Clarified Human Placental Villous Vascular Networks
Published on: March 29, 2018
[Placental MRI: physiology and pathology]
B Deloison1, A-E Millischer, L-J Salomon
1Service de gynécologie-obstétrique et de médecine fœtale, université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 149 rue de Sèvres, Paris, France. benjamindeloison@hotmail.com
Abstract:
The placenta is essential for fetal development but its in vivo study, including the study of placental perfusion is still very limited to date. MRI is a safe examination that offers new perspectives for the study of placental function that is altered in many conditions (IUGR, preeclampsia…) and placental anatomy (placenta accreta…). The different MRI sequences (DCE, IVIM, BOLD, ASL…) are new tools that may soon allow us to assess precisely placental function and anatomy, in vivo and non-invasively.
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