| Weekday Educational
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| The Rise and Fall of the Brain, Part I: The Developing Brain |
| Organizers: P. Ellen Grant, M.D.
and John Port, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Skill Level: Intermediate |
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| Monday, 20 April 2009 |
| 11:00 - 13:00 |
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| OVERVIEW |
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In this two hour course, the first of each pair of speakers
will provide a broad overview of normal brain development
and current MRI techniques (how I do it), while the second
speaker will focus on the MR appearance of various
developmental brain abnormalities that can occur. The first
pair of speakers will explore fetal brain development (18-40
weeks GA), discussing abnormalities as well as the technical
limitations and detectability issues involved with fetal
MRI. The second pair of speakers will explore normal brain
development in postnatal infants and abnormalities in brain
myelination. |
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
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Upon completion of this
case based session, participants should be able to:
- Describe the basic phases of brain development
in the fetal and infant age ranges;
- List the imaging findings seen with various developmental
brain abnormalities;
- Describe the basic MRI techniques necessary to obtain good
quality fetal and
infant brain imaging;
- Recognize the challenges, limitations, and pitfalls of
current imaging techniques with
respect to this challenging patient population; and
- Discuss future potential MR imaging techniques for the
diagnosis of these entities
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