Cerebral maturation in the early preterm period-A magnetization transfer and diffusion tensor imaging study using voxel-based analysis

NeuroImage

Volumn 112, Issue , 2015, Pages 30-42

  Nossin Manor, Revital ^a,b   Card, Dallas ^a   Raybaud, Charles ^a,c   Taylor, Margot J ^a,b,c   Sled, John G ^b,d  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain maturation; DTI; MTR; Preterm neonates; Quantitative MRI; Voxel based analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MATURATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER RATIO; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOXEL BASED ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; EMBRYOLOGY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY MATTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84924546167     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.051     Document Type: Article

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