The effect of preterm birth on thalamic and cortical development

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1016-1024

  Ball, Gareth ^a   Boardman, James P ^a,b   Rueckert, Daniel ^c   Aljabar, Paul ^c   Arichi, Tomoki ^a,d   Merchant, Nazakat ^a,d   Gousias, Ioannis S ^a   Edwards, A David ^a,d   Counsell, Serena J ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain development; cortex; deformation based morphometry; DTI; TBSS; thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SEMIOVAL CENTER; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 84860175123     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr176     Document Type: Article

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