@inbook{4c96393f2a93485eafdb7e62b03dfa9f,
title = "MRI Measurement of Placental Perfusion and Fetal Blood Oxygen Saturation in Normal Pregnancy and Placental Insufficiency",
abstract = "The placenta is essential for successful pregnancy outcome. Inadequate placenta development leads to poor placental perfusion and placental insufficiency, responsible for one third of antenatal stillbirths. Current imaging modalities provide poor clinical assessment of placental perfusion and pregnancy outcome. In this work we propose a technique to estimate the vascular properties of retro-placenta myometrial and placental perfusion. The fetal blood saturation is a relative unknown, thus we describe a method to simultaneously estimate the fetal blood volume in addition to the fetal blood T2 relaxation time from which we can estimate this parameter. This information may prove useful for predicting if and when a placenta will fail, and thus when a small baby must be delivered to have the best neurological outcome. We report differences in vascular compartments and saturation values observed between 5 normal pregnancies, and two complicated by placental insufficiency.",
author = "Rosalind Aughwane and Magdalena Sokolska and Alan Bainbridge and David Atkinson and Giles Kendall and Jan Deprest and Tom Vercauteren and David, {Anna L.} and S{\'e}bastien Ourselin and Andrew Melbourne",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-00934-2_101",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-00933-5",
volume = "11071",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "913--920",
editor = "Gabor Fichtinger and Christos Davatzikos and Carlos Alberola-L{\'o}pez and Frangi, {Alejandro F.} and Schnabel, {Julia A.}",
booktitle = "Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2018 - 21st International Conference, 2018, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
note = "21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018 ; Conference date: 16-09-2018 Through 20-09-2018",
}