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Abstract #0770

Disrupted developmental organization of brain connectivity in fetuses with corpus callosum agenesis: an in utero study

Andrs Jakab 1 , Gregor Kasprian 2 , Ernst Schwartz 2 , Veronika Schpf 3 , Daniela Prayer 2 , and Georg Langs 1,4

1 CIR Lab, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2 Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 3 Institute for Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria, 4 Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

We utilized prenatal diffusion tensor imaging to map the globally altered structural brain connectivity in second and third trimester fetuses with corpus callosum agenesis. We have shown by connectome-level tractography that callosal agenesis manifests in excessive structural connectivity, which constantly intensifies during gestation. Our results indicate that misguided axons form aberrant antero-posteriorly running pathways not only adjacent to the median surface of the hemispheres, but distributed across the lateral parts of the convexity.

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