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Motion-corrected foetal cardiac MRI

Applying motion correction to standard foetal magnetic resonance imaging via image-registration techniques improves the diagnostic evaluation of cardiovascular structures in foetuses.

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Fig. 1: Image processing for the reconstruction of the 3D structure of the foetal heart from original stacks of slices acquired consecutively across multiple planes.

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Gholipour, A., Warfield, S.K. Motion-corrected foetal cardiac MRI. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 852–854 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0476-2

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