Table 3 Exclusion criteria for the MarsFet dataset

From: Burst of gyrification in the human brain after birth

• Multiple pregnancy

• Brain malformation: microcephaly (−3SD), macrocephaly (+2SD), commissural anomalies (corpus callosum anomalies, septal agenesis), posterior fossa anomalies (Dandy–Walker spectrum, compressive arachnoid cysts, mega grande cisterna > 12 mm, cerebellar hypoplasia, pontocerebellar malformations), clastic lesions, cortical developmental anomalies

• Enlargement of ventricles superior than 10 mm at ultrasound

• Extracerebral malformation (particularly cardiac or syndromic)

• Genetic syndrome and/or chromosomal abnormality and/or deleterious mutation

• Fetal alcoholism

• Detrimental perinatal event: difficult traumatic delivery, anoxo-ischemia, respiratory distress, convulsion, maladjustment to extrauterine life 

• Diabetic mother (treated) or gestational diabetes

• Epileptic mother (treated)

Fetal MRI sessions in the following situations were not excluded:

• Maternal infection by cytomegalovirus, for which the infection of the fetus was ruled out by test on amniotic fluid or urine in the neonatal period 

• Presence of small (inferior to 3 mm) periventricular cysts

  1. Detailed inclusion/exclusion criteria for the fetal MarsFet dataset.
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