Echo planar imaging of an infant with pectus excavatum

C O'Callaghan; B Chapman; A Howseman; M Stehling; R Coxon; P Mansfield

doi:10.1007/BF01959525

Echo planar imaging of an infant with pectus excavatum

Eur J Pediatr. 1990 Jul;149(10):698-9. doi: 10.1007/BF01959525.

Authors

C O'Callaghan¹, B Chapman, A Howseman, M Stehling, R Coxon, P Mansfield

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics, University of Nottingham, UK.

PMID: 2209662
DOI: 10.1007/BF01959525

Abstract

Echo planar imaging has enabled us to image safely and without sedation the thorax of an infant with pectus excavatum deformity. The heart was displaced into the left side of the thorax, and the right lung was calculated to be 1.6 times larger than the left lung.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Funnel Chest / diagnosis*
Humans
Infant
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*