Diffusion-Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and the Evaluation of Perinatal Brain Injury

Completed

Conditions studied: Brain Injury, Fetus and Neonate

In brief

The researchers' objective is to use diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) to evaluate infants diagnosed with cerebral white matter injury during the neonatal period and identify antenatal risk factors, electronic fetal heart rate monitoring abnormalities, and umbilical arterial gas results that are associated with cerebral white matter injury. The researchers' hypothesis is that this new imaging technique will help us better understand how these devastating injuries occur.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00131859

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

5

Starts

2004-10-01

Expected to finish

2008-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-08-13

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 2. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All infants born at our hospital at < 1500 grams
• All infants born at our hospital at > 1500 grams with brain injury or severe metabolic acidosis

You may not qualify if…

• Major congenital malformations
• Chromosomal abnormality

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Johns Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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