Table 1. Brain injury on conventional MR imaging.

Brain Region	Visual Interpretation	Normal†/mild neonatal encephalopathy (n = 29†)	Moderate‡/severe neonatal encephalopathy (n = 15‡)
Posterior limb of the internal capsule	0–Normal signal intensity	23 (79%)	9 (60%)
	1–Equivocal signal intensity	4 (14%)	3 (20%)
	2–Abnormal signal intensity	2 (7%)	3 (20%)
Basal ganglia and thalami	0–Normal	24 (83%)	8 (53%)
	1–Mild injury	2 (7%)	2 (13%)
	2–Moderate injury	3 (10%)	4 (27%)
	3–Severe injury	0 (0%)	1 (7%)
White matter	0–Normal	4 (14%)	0 (0%)
	1–Mild injury	11 (38%)	7 (47%)
	2–Moderate injury	12 (41%)	4 (27%)
	3–Severe injury	2 (7%)	4 (27%)
Cortex	0–Normal	9 (31%)	4 (27%)
	1–Mild injury	15 (52%)	6 (40%)
	2–Moderate injury	4 (14%)	3 (20%)
	3–Severe injury	1 (3%)	2 (13%)

Values are frequency (% of n).

^†Three infants had no encephalopathy on day 3 Sarnat stage.

^‡13 had moderate encephalopathy.