Brain microstructural development at near-term age in very-low-birth-weight preterm infants: An atlas-based diffusion imaging study

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 244-256

  Rose, Jessica ^a,b   Vassar, Rachel ^a   Cahill Rowley, Katelyn ^b,c   Guzman, Ximena Stecher ^d   Stevenson, David K ^a   Barnea Goraly, Naama ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Brain development; Diffusion tensor imaging; Preterm neonates; White matter microstructure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLAS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELINATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEWBORN; POSTERIOR THALAMIC RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAGITTAL STRATUM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ACR; AD; ALIC; ANTERIOR CORONA RADIATA; ANTERIOR LIMB OF THE INTERNAL CAPSULE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CC; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CEREP; CORONA RADIATA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EC; EXTERNAL CAPSULE; FA; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GA; GESTATIONAL AGE; IC; INTERNAL CAPSULE; MD; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; PCR; PLIC; PMA; POSTERIOR CORONA RADIATA; POSTERIOR LIMB OF THE INTERNAL CAPSULE; POSTERIOR THALAMIC RADIATION; POSTMENSTRUAL AGE; PRETERM NEONATES; PTR; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; RD; RETROLENTICULAR PART OF INTERNAL CAPSULE; RLC; SAGITTAL STRATUM; SCR; SLF; SS; STRIA TERMINALIS; STRIAT; SUPERIOR CORONA RADIATA; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; VERY-LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT; VLBW; WHITE MATTER MICROSTRUCTURE;

AGING; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84891560336     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.053     Document Type: Article

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