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Brain biometrics is a vital part of the examination of the fetal brain. Many parameters can be measured by examining the brain. In addition to discussing the conventional measurement of biparietal diameter and head circumference, this chapter will address the biometrics of atrial diameter, cisterna magna, corpus callosum, brainstem, and cerebral vermis. It will also address the measurement of interorbital distance, anomalies of which may be indicative of fetal brain anomalies.
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Bault, JP., Loeuillet, L. (2015). Brain Biometrics. In: The Normal and Pathological Fetal Brain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19971-9_4
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