title: Delayed early developmental trajectories of white matter tracts of functional pathways in preterm-born infants: Longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging data.
abstract: Probabilistic maps of white matter pathways related to motor, somatosensory, auditory, visual, and limbic functions, and major white matter tracts (the corpus callosum, the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, and the middle cerebellar peduncle) were applied to evaluate the developmental trajectories of these tracts, using longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) obtained in term-born and preterm-born healthy infants. Nineteen term-born and 30 preterm-born infants completed MR scans at three time points: Time-point 1, 41.6±2.7 postmenstrual weeks; Time-point 2, 46.0±2.9 postmenstrual weeks; and Time-point 3, 50.8±3.7 postmenstrual weeks. The DTI-derived scalar values (fractional anisotropy, eigenvalues, and radial diffusivity) of the three time points are available in this Data article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Akazawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Robyn
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yamakawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hayama
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buchthal
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alicata
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Tamara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Andres
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Deborrah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Castillo
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Kumiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oishi
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children׳s and Women׳s Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Skranes
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ernst
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oishi
keywords: Atlas; Diffusion tensor imaging; Infant; Preterm; Term