Development of Cortical Morphology Evaluated with Longitudinal MR Brain Images of Preterm Infants

The cerebral cortex develops rapidly in the last trimester of pregnancy. In preterm infants, brain development is very vulnerable because of their often complicated extra-uterine conditions. The aim of this study was to quantitatively describe cortical development in a cohort of 85 preterm infants with and without brain injury imaged at 30 and 40 weeks postmenstrual age (PMA).In the acquired T2-weighted MR images, unmyelinated white matter...