White matter microstructure on diffusion tensor imaging is associated with conventional magnetic resonance imaging findings and cognitive function in adolescents born preterm

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 809-814

  Feldman, Heidi M ^a   Lee, Eliana S ^a   Loe, Irene M ^a   Yeom, Kristen W ^b   Grill Spector, Kalanit ^a   Luna, Beatriz ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TERM BIRTH; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTELLIGENCE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84865176152     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2012.04378.x     Document Type: Article

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