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La Sapienza University reports research in radiology

Published in Telemedicine Business Week, July 8th, 2009

"The study aimed to investigate the correlation between apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and gestational age by applying diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in the study of normal fetal kidneys. We performed magnetic resonance (MR) imaging on 88 fetuses (gestational age range 17-40 weeks) after ultrasound had ruled out urinary system malformations," scientists writing in the journal Radiologia Medica report.

"A multiplanar study of the urinary system was obtained by using conventional T2-weighted sequences and echoplanar imaging (EPI). DW sequences with ADC maps were subsequently acquired, and kidney ADC values were correlated with gestational age by diving the...

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