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DWI and 3D SWAN improve the knowledge of pathophysiological mechanism of neonatal bilirubin encephalopathy
Jinhong Yu1, Yanwei Miao1, Yangyingqiu Liu1, Bingbing Gao1, and Yu Bing1
1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
 In this study, we used DWI and 3D SWAN to explore the pathophysiological mechanism of brain injury in children with hyperbilirubinemia (HB), and found that the limited diffusion of water molecules is present in globus pallid and cerebral microbleeds more likely occur in children with HB.
Fig.1 Setting ROI and FWM on DWI and ADC
Fig.2 Box plot of rADC values in HC, HBn and HBh groups