MRI evaluation and safety in the developing brain

S Tocchio, B Kline-Fath, E Kanal, VJ Schmithorst… - Seminars in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evaluation of the developing brain has dramatically
increased over the last decade. Faster acquisitions and the development of advanced MRI …

Acoustic noise and magnetic resonance imaging: a narrative/descriptive review

MJ McJury - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic resonance imaging generates unwanted acoustic noise. This review describes the
work characterizing the acoustic noise, and the various solutions to control and attenuate the …

Neonatal pulmonary magnetic resonance imaging of bronchopulmonary dysplasia predicts short-term clinical outcomes

NS Higano, DR Spielberg, RJ Fleck… - American journal of …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a serious neonatal pulmonary condition
associated with premature birth, but the underlying parenchymal disease and trajectory are …

Retrospective respiratory self‐gating and removal of bulk motion in pulmonary UTE MRI of neonates and adults

NS Higano, AD Hahn, JA Tkach, X Cao… - Magnetic resonance …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To implement pulmonary three‐dimensional (3D) radial ultrashort echo‐time (UTE)
MRI in non‐sedated, free‐breathing neonates and adults with retrospective motion tracking …

Quantification of neonatal lung parenchymal density via ultrashort echo time MRI with comparison to CT

NS Higano, RJ Fleck, DR Spielberg… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To demonstrate that ultrashort echo time (UTE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
can achieve computed tomography (CT)‐like quantification of lung parenchyma in free …

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in the neonatal intensive care unit environment

LL Walkup, JA Tkach, NS Higano… - American journal of …, 2015 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a prevalent yet poorly characterized
pulmonary complication of premature birth; the current definition is based solely on oxygen …

Increased work of breathing due to tracheomalacia in neonates

CC Gunatilaka, NS Higano, EB Hysinger… - Annals of the …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Dynamic collapse of the tracheal lumen (tracheomalacia) occurs frequently in
premature neonates, particularly in those with common comorbidities such as …

Ultrashort echo-time MRI for the assessment of tracheomalacia in neonates

EB Hysinger, AJ Bates, NS Higano, D Benscoter… - Chest, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Bronchoscopy is the gold standard for evaluating tracheomalacia; however,
reliance on an invasive procedure limits understanding of normal airway dynamics. Self …

Quantitative Assessment of Regional Dynamic Airway Collapse in Neonates via Retrospectively Respiratory‐Gated 1H Ultrashort Echo Time MRI

AJ Bates, NS Higano, EB Hysinger… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Neonatal dynamic tracheal collapse (tracheomalacia, TM) is a common and
serious comorbidity in infants, particularly those with chronic lung disease of prematurity …

The effect of airway motion and breathing phase during imaging on CFD simulations of respiratory airflow

CC Gunatilaka, A Schuh, NS Higano, JC Woods… - Computers in biology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rationale Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of respiratory airflow can quantify
clinically useful information that cannot be obtained directly, such as the work of breathing …