Article: Study results from Central South University in the area of kernicterus published.(Report)

" The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H-1-MRS), and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) for neonatal bilirubin encephalopathy. We collected conventional MRI in 24 neonates with neonatal bilirubin encephalopathy," researchers in Changsha, People's Republic of China report (see also Kernicterus).

"We performed H-1-MRS and DWI sequences to nine of the 24 patients and seven age-matched healthy control subjects. Multiple-voxel H-1-MRS data were acquired using PRESS pulse sequence with TE=135 ms and TR=1500 ms. The spectroscopic regions of interest were the ...

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