Whole-brain mapping of structural connectivity in infants reveals altered connection strength associated with growth and preterm birth

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2324-2333

  Pandit, A S ^a,b   Robinson, E ^c   Aljabar, P ^a   Ball, G ^a   Gousias, I S ^b   Wang, Z ^b   Hajnal, J V ^a   Rueckert, D ^b   Counsell, S J ^a   Montana, G ^b   Edwards, A D ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectome; Diffusion MRI; Penalized regression; Prematurity; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCORTEX; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MYELINATED NERVE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84906976973     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht086     Document Type: Article

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