Large Numbers for Small Children-Up to What Age Do Infants Benefit from a Longer Echo Time in Cerebral T2 MRI Sequences?

In newborns, white matter shows a high T2-weighted (T2w) signal in MRI with poor grey-white matter contrast. To increase this contrast, an extremely long echo time (TE) is used in the examination of children. It is not known up to what age this long TE should be used.

[Ovarian masses in infants and children].

Background: Abnormalities of the ovary are frequently seen on ultrasound examination, sometimes symptomatic, but are more commonly asymptomatic.

Purpose: Presentation of the most important entities of ovarian masses and their imaging features in infants and children. Discussion of criteria for differentiation between benign and potentially malignant masses.

Acute and Chronic Kernicterus: MR Imaging Evolution of Globus Pallidus Signal Change during Childhood.

Background And Purpose: Despite its rarity in Western countries, kernicterus resulting from severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and its associated neurologic consequences still persists. Subtle MR imaging patterns may be overlooked, leading to diagnostic and prognostic uncertainties. The study systematically analyzes MR imaging pattern over time.

Imaging in children with hearing loss.

Background: Since the introduction of hearing screening in Germany in 2009, pediatric hearing disorders are detected at an early stage. Early therapy is essential for language development. Imaging plays a central role in diagnosis and therapy planning.

Real-time MRI: a new tool of radiologic imaging in small children.

Unlabelled: Real-time MRI (rt-MRI) in children is a new imaging technique that combines the advantages of US - at frame rates of up to 50 images per second - with the quality and features of MRI. Although still subject of research, it has become a standard tool in the diagnostic portfolio of two pediatric radiology departments in Germany. Based on ultrashort acquisition times, any detrimental effects of macroscopic movements of the child and the physiological movements of the organs are negligible.