8th Baltic Congress of Radiology

Biography: Pilvi Ilves is internationally known as an expert in pediatric neuroimaging, especially stroke imaging. Her current research focus is perinatal and genetic risk factors in pediatric stroke, acute and chronic radiological findings of stroke predictive in outcome of pediatric stroke patients. Her resarch groups includes several doctoral students interested in reorganization and brain plasticity after pediatric stroke. The focus of research is to find correlations between functional magnetic resonance imaging findings and neurocognitive and language outcome of stroke patients. The aim of the research is to find radiological signs which provide child neurologists and other rehabilitation specialists with a better understanding about the need for rehabilitation, as well as about prognosis of stroke patients.