Abstract #0902

White Matter Development in Preterm Infants at Term Equivalent Age: Assessment Using TBSS

Jeong Hye Jin¹, Shim So-Yeon², Jeong Joon-Sup¹, Oh Se-Hong¹, Park Sung-Yeon¹, Kim Young-Bo¹, Cho Zang-Hee¹

¹Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon university, Namdong-gu, Incheon, Korea; ²Department of Pediatrics, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Namdong-gu, Incheon, Korea

Preterm infants are at significant risk for altered brain microstructure. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) enables the visualization and quantitative characterization of white matter in vivo. Especially tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) performed spatial normalization for group analysis in brain white matter. In this study, we performed analyses of white matter development between full-term infants and preterm infants at equivalent age using TBSS.