Early development of structural networks and the impact of prematurity on brain connectivity

NeuroImage

Volumn 149, Issue , 2017, Pages 379-392

  Batalle, Dafnis ^a   Hughes, Emer J ^a   Zhang, Hui ^b   Tournier, J Donald ^a   Tusor, Nora ^a   Aljabar, Paul ^a   Wali, Luqman ^a   Alexander, Daniel C ^b   Hajnal, Joseph V ^a   Nosarti, Chiara ^a   Edwards, A David ^a   Counsell, Serena J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Diffusion MRI; Graph theory; Newborn; NODDI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CONNECTIVITY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMATURITY; STRUCTURAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE TRACT; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 85012134658     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.065     Document Type: Article

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