466-05-004 / 271-01-016 ISMRM Abstract

Characterising neurodevelopment in low and middle-income settings with ultra-low field MRI.

Primary: Pediatrics - Neuro

Secondary: Pediatrics - Normal Development

466-05-004 · Pediatric Low Field MRI · Tuesday, 12 May, 4:00 PM–4:55 PM · Digital Posters Row G

271-01-016 · ISMRM AMPC Selected Posters · Sunday, 10 May, 7:00 AM–2:00 PM · Traditional Posters

Keywords: Neurodevelopment Ultra-Low-Field MRI Low-Resource Settings Volumetry Global Health

Accepted

Firehiwot W Abate¹, Kenneth A Ae-Ngibise², Kwaku P Asante², Florence AWEYO³, Victor Akelo^3,4, Niall J Bourke⁵, Richard Beare⁶, Chiara Casella^7,8, Sean Deoni ⁹, Kirsten A Donald^10,11, Vanessa Cavallera¹², Tarun Dua¹², Laurel Gabard-Durnam¹³, Bethany Freeman¹⁴, Emmanuela Gakidou¹⁵, Zahra Hoodbhoy¹⁶, Margaret Kasaro¹⁴, Sidra Kaleem¹⁶, Hajer Karoui⁵, AMNA KHAN¹⁶, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo¹⁷, Beena Koshy¹⁸, Anne C Lee¹⁹, Aksel Leknes^20,21, Natasha Lepore^22,23, Marius Linguraru^24,25, Russell Macleod⁷, Yaw Mensah²⁶, Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh^27,28, Hans-Georg Müller²⁹, Victoria Namazzi³⁰, Margaret Nampijja¹⁷, Gloria Nandudu³⁰, Victoria Nankabirwa³⁰, Solomon Nyame², Dickens Onyango³, Samuel A Oppong³¹, Salman Osmani¹⁶, Harun Owuor³, Sadia Parkar¹⁶, Joshua Proctor⁹, Marc Seal⁶, Emily R Smith³², Jamie Steinmetz¹⁵, Austin Tapp²⁴, Jeffrey Tanedo²², Maclean Vokhiwa^33,34, Steven C Williams⁵, Yidong Zhou²⁹, Muriel Bruchhage^21,35

¹Training Division, Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

²Kintampo Health Research Centre, Kintampo, Ghana

³Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

⁴Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

⁵Department of Neuroimaging, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

⁶Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

⁷Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

⁸Research department of Early Life Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

⁹Gates Foundation, Seattle, United States of America

¹⁰Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

¹¹Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

¹²World Health Organization, Switzerland

¹³Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health, Northeastern University (USA), Boston, United States of America

¹⁴University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

¹⁵Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, United States of America

¹⁶Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

¹⁷African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya

¹⁸Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

¹⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, United States of America

²⁰Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, STAVANGER, Norway

²¹Department of Radiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway

²²Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America

²³University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America

²⁴Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National, Washington, DC, United States of America

²⁵Departments of Radiology and Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Health Sciences,, George Washington University, Washington, United States of America

²⁶Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

²⁷Department for Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

²⁸Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King’s College London, United Kingdom, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

²⁹University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America

³⁰Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

³¹University of Ghana Medical Centre, Accra, Ghana

³²George Washington University, Washington, United States of America

³³Paediatrics, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

³⁴Neuroscience, Training and Research Unit of Excellence, Blantyre, Malawi

³⁵Institute of Psychology, University of Stavanger, STAVANGER, Norway

Presenting Author: Sean Deoni

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