Recent reports have highlighted the lifetime risk of malignancy from using ionizing radiation in pediatric imaging. Computed tomography (CT), which uses ionizing radiation, is employed extensively for neonatal brain imaging of term infants. Magnetic resonance (MR) provides an alternative that does not use ionizing radiation.
Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Richard.Robertson@tch.harvard.edu
