Vast experience has been gained over the past decade in safely transporting, monitoring, and imaging neonates, a highly vulnerable patient group. Technological advances in MRI hardware such as higher field strength systems, multi-channel coils, higher gradient performance, and MR compatible incubators with integrated antennae laid the ground for more detailed, higher resolution anatomical MR imaging.? This issue provides separate reviews on the use of MR imaging in the evaluation of encephalopathy, postmortems, spinal dysraphia, and inflicted brain injury as well as neonatal neuro MR imaging and MR-guided cardiovascular interventions.

Topics include: MRI of the preterm and term neonate with hypoxic ischemic injury; MRI of neonatal infections; MRI of neonatal stroke; Neonates with seizures: What to consider, How to image?;? Metabolic diseases of the newborn; Fetal MRI: Imaging versus imagining?; Postmortum MRI: An alternative to autopsy?; MRI of spinal dysraphia: What to consider?; Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the neonatal spinal cord; How to prepare and care for a critical sick neonate in a MRI environment; Functional (BOLD) imaging of the newborn; Advanced functional MRI; Dedicated MR antennae for neonatal imaging; Shaken infant syndrome/ Imaging of child abuse; Congenital Cardiac Defects and MR guided planning of surgery; Congenital Cardiovascular Malformation: Non-invasive imaging; MR guided cardiovascular interventions in noenates and infants; Musculoskeletal imaging of the newborn.