Technical Standard - Neonatal Cranial Ultrasound Scans

[JACK]

Although there a lot of standards for CT and MRI scans, its not so for Cranial ultrasound.
While searching through the net I found one such standard published by the British Society of Pediatric Radiologists.

The link is (http://www.bspr.org.uk/docs/Headfinal2.pdf)

Thought I will share it with you.

[JAMA]

Excellent standards.

Thanks

[Stefan Johansson]

I know from one of the authors that a new edition of the Atlas of Neonatal Brain Sonographythis (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1898683093?ie=UTF8&tag=99nicu-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1898683093) is in pipeline.

The book Neonatal Cranial Ultrasonography: Guidelines for the Procedure and Atlas of Normal Ultrasound Anatomy (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540699066?ie=UTF8&tag=99nicu-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3540699066) is another good and recent book about neonatal cerebral ultrasound.

[JACK]

American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. AIUM practice guideline for the
performance of neurosonography in neonates and infants. J Ultrasound Med. 2010
Jan;29(1):151-6. PubMed PMID: 20040791.

LINK TO DOWNLOAD (http://bit.ly/bnGNFI)

[sSnjezana]

Dear All,

I perform ultrasound of brain 13 years, and we (my younger collegues and me) use B mode and the doppler techniques. We use not only coronal section through the AF, than over PF, MF and through the temporal windov, also. And I never provoked bradicardia because never use the pressure of probe on fontanelle. And, for venous blood flow through the sinuses is very valuable linear probe. If you use doppler, particular pulse wave, You must think on ISPTA, or termal and mechanic index ( <0,4).