Abstract #0025

In Vivo Fetal Cortical Development

Cedric Clouchoux^1,2, Dimitri Kudelski³, Ali Gholipour⁴, Simon K. Warfield⁴, Sophie Viseur⁵, Jean-Luc Mari³, Alan C. Evans², Adre J. DuPlessis¹, Catherine Limperopoulos^{1, 2}

¹Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; ²Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada; ³LSIS, Marseille, France; ⁴Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA; ⁵Universite de Provence, Marseille, France

Recent advances in fetal magnetic resonance imaging and post-processing computational methods are providing new insights into fetal brain maturation in vivo. To date, no study has delineated the gyrification process for the in vivo fetal brain.