More articles from Pediatric Neuroimaging

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    Microstructure of the Default Mode Network in Preterm Infants
    J. Cui, O. Tymofiyeva, R. Desikan, T. Flynn, H. Kim, D. Gano, C.P. Hess, D.M. Ferriero, A.J. Barkovich and D. Xu

    A cohort of 44 preterm infants underwent T1WI, resting-state fMRI, and DTI at 3T, including 21 infants with brain injuries and 23 infants with normal-appearing structural imaging as controls. Neurodevelopment was evaluated with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development at 12 months' adjusted age. Results showed decreased fractional anisotropy and elevated radial diffusivity values of the cingula in the preterm infants with brain injuries compared with controls. The Bayley Scales of Infant Development cognitive scores were significantly associated with cingulate fractional anisotropy. The authors suggest that the microstructural properties of interconnecting axonal pathways within the default mode network are of critical importance in the early neurocognitive development of infants.

  • Fetal Brain Anomalies Associated with Ventriculomegaly or Asymmetry: An MRI-Based Study
    E. Barzilay, O. Bar-Yosef, S. Dorembus, R. Achiron and E. Katorza
  • Automated Processing of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI: Correlation of Advanced Pharmacokinetic Metrics with Tumor Grade in Pediatric Brain Tumors
    S. Vajapeyam, C. Stamoulis, K. Ricci, M. Kieran and T. Young Poussaint
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    Flow Diverters in the Treatment of Pediatric Cerebrovascular Diseases
    M. Barburoglu and A. Arat
  • Limited Dorsal Myeloschisis and Congenital Dermal Sinus: Comparison of Clinical and MR Imaging Features
    S.M. Lee, J.-E. Cheon, Y.H. Choi, I.-O. Kim, W.S. Kim, H.-H. Cho, J.Y. Lee and K.-C. Wang

    These investigators retrospectively reviewed the clinical and MR imaging findings of 12 patients with limited dorsal myeloschisis and 10 patients with congenital dermal sinus. A crater covered with pale epithelium was the most common skin lesion in limited dorsal myeloschisis (83%). Infectious complications were common in congenital dermal sinus (60%), but not found in limited dorsal myeloschisis. They show that limited dorsal myeloschisis has distinct MR imaging features including a visible intrathecal tract with dorsal tenting of the cord at the tract-cord union.

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    White Matter Injury and General Movements in High-Risk Preterm Infants
    C. Peyton, E. Yang, M.E. Msall, L. Adde, R. Støen, T. Fjørtoft, A.F. Bos, C. Einspieler, Y. Zhou, M.D. Schreiber, J.D. Marks and A. Drobyshevsky

    Cerebral palsy has been predicted by analysis of spontaneous movements in the infant termed “General Movement Assessment.” The authors evaluated the utility of General Movement Assessment in predicting adverse cognitive, language, and motor outcomes in very preterm infants and attempted to identify brain imaging markers associated with both adverse outcomes and aberrant general movements in 47 preterm infants using MRI volumetric analysis and DTI. Nine infants had aberrant general movements and were more likely to have adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, compared with infants with normal movements. In infants with aberrant movements, Tract-Based Spatial Statistics analysis identified significantly lower fractional anisotropy in widespread WM tracts. They conclude that aberrant general movements at 10–15 weeks' postterm are associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes and specific white matter microstructure abnormalities for cognitive, language, and motor delays.

  • Variability of Cerebral Deep Venous System in Preterm and Term Neonates Evaluated on MR SWI Venography
    D. Tortora, M. Severino, M. Malova, A. Parodi, G. Morana, L.A. Ramenghi and A. Rossi
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    Brain Perfusion Imaging in Neonates: An Overview
    M. Proisy, S. Mitra, C. Uria-Avellana, M. Sokolska, N.J. Robertson, F. Le Jeune and J.-C. Ferré
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    Childhood Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy: MR Perfusion Measurements and Their Use in Predicting Clinical Outcome after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
    A.M. McKinney, J. Benson, D.R. Nascene, J. Eisengart, M.B. Salmela, D.J. Loes, L. Zhang, K. Patel, G.V. Raymond and W.P. Miller
  • Limitations of T2*–Gradient Recalled-Echo and Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging in Characterizing Chronic Subdural Hemorrhage in Infant Survivors of Abusive Head Trauma
    J.A. Cramer, U.A. Rassner and G.L. Hedlund
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