By James Gallagher
Researchers have produced unprecedented images of a baby's heart while it is still inside the womb.
Pregnant women were scanned in an MRI machine and powerful computers built 3D models of the tiny beating hearts inside their unborn children.
The team at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas's says it will improve the care of babies with congenital heart disease.
The researchers say their approach could easily be adopted by hospitals.
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A series of 2D pictures of the heart are taken from different angles using an MRI machine.
But the foetal heart is tiny, beats incredibly quickly, and the baby moves around inside the womb so the images of the heart look like a fuzzy blur.
But then comes the really clever bit.
Sophisticated computer software pieces the images together, adjusts for the beating of the heart and then builds an unprecedented 3D image of the heart.
It gives doctors a clear view of the abnormality.
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Congenital heart diseases affect up to eight in every 1,000 babies born in the UK.
They can be caused by infections and some medicines, and can run in families.
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Not being snarky ...
I know people who will quibble - … It was with the grace of God almighty!
Not thinking that if it was the case, the same God waited too much long to help.
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