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Mapping developmental trajectories of the cortex and its adjacent white matter for preterm neonates using DTI
Shiyu Yuan1, Jingda Yang1, Mengting Liu1, Duan Xu2, James Barkovich2, and Hosung Kim1
1USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
The current results are best understood as increases in cyto- and myeloarchitectural complexity, characterized as DTI MD and FA changes, starting in the central region and propagating to other cortical regions with rapid elongation of dendrites and extensive expansion with maturation axons.
Fig. 1 spatiotemporal_MD_GM
Fig. 2 spatiotemporal_MD_sWM