Child's Brain: New MRI Technique Provides Images of Unprecedented Precision

Six children aged 6 to 12 took part in the "brain astronaut" game by inserting their heads into the tunnel of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine this spring. This was a first in France, conducted at the NeuroSpin center at CEA Paris-Saclay, which scans the juvenile brain with unprecedented precision using a 7-tesla MRI technique.

"It's a pretty exceptional tool for studying neurodevelopmental disorders and brain diseases in children," says David Germanaud, a pediatric neurologist at the Robert Debré Institute for the Child's Brain. Used as part of research protocols, the examination was carried out on five children aged 6 to 12 with typical brain development; and on a 12-year-old girl with fetal alcohol syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder linked to alcohol exposure during pregnancy.

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