Hye Jin Jeong1, So Yeon Shim2, Joon Sup Jeong1, Se Hong Oh1, Sung Yeon Park1, Young Bo Kim1, Zang Hee Cho1
1Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Neuroscience Research Instiute, Namdong-gu, Incheon, Korea, Republic of; 2Gachon University Gil Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Namdong-gu, Incheon, Korea, Republic of
Infant born preterm have a high incidence of neurodevelopmental impairment, comparing with full-term infants. Development of brain white matter (WM) study based on DTI may allow prediction of later neurodevlopmental outcome. we performed analyses of brain development between full-term infants and preterm infants at equivalent age using TBSS. Group-wise voxel-based comparisons between full-term infants and preterm infants revealed significantly decreased FA values in preterm infants at term equivalent age. We show that growth of white matter is gestation dependent. Longitudinal study is needed to define the catch-up growth in preterm infants.
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