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Visualization of the fetal circle of Willis and intra-cerebral arteries by color-coded Doppler
P H Arbeille1, F Tranquart, M Berson
1Unité INSERM 316, Système nerveux du foetus à l'enfant, Faculté de Médecine, Tours, France.
We report here the visualization of the intra-cerebral vessels in a normal fetus of 28 weeks gestational age, by color-coded Doppler. The color-flow mapping method makes it possible to identify very small vessels that up to date could not be detected on B-mode imaging, and will permit new clinical and physiological studies of the circulation in specific areas of the fetal brain.
We report here the visualization of the intra-cerebral vessels in a normal fetus of 28 weeks gestational age, by color-coded Doppler. The color-flow mapping method makes it possible to identify very small vessels that up to date could not be detected on B-mode imaging, and will permit new clinical and physiological studies of the circulation in specific areas of the fetal brain.