Normal sonographic findings of the infant temporal lobe in coronal sections

Abstract

Coronal sonograms of the temporal lobe of the infant brain were obtained using a real time sector scanner with a 5.0 MHz transducer probe. The precise normal anatomy in the coronal sections was determined by correlating with corresponding brain specimens. It was revealed that the spatial arrangement of structures in the medial part of the temporal lobe, i.e. the hippocampal formation and the inferior horn, varied in the three different planes. In the plane through the anterior part of the temporal lobe, these structures were seen as a horizontal lamellar configuration, whereas in the plane through the middle part these structures were depicted as a typical interfolded arrangement. However, the hippocampal formation was barely visible in the plane through the posterior part.