3D MR Imaging of Postmortem Fetus

* also see 3D MR Imaging of the Postmortem Fetal Heart
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3D view of the fetal internal organs
3D MRI brain
Internal Organs
[GIF movie 287 KB]
Compared to the brain on the left, the gyri have been formed in this older fetus [AVI 250 KB]
Cerebral Ventricular System (normal)
[AVI movie 353 KB]
Cerebral Ventricular System
(abnormal with left lateral intraventricular haemorrhage)
[AVI movie 413 KB]
malformed vertebrae
Diaphragmatic Hernia [AVI movie 596 KB]. The right cervical vertebral malformation (arrows) of the same fetus was incidentally found from the 3D data set three years after the postmortem MRI, showing the importance of the technique in support of fetal autopsy.