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A tract-specific approach to assessing white matter in preterm infants.
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- Neonatal amygdala resting-state functional connectivity and socio-emotional development in very preterm children.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Not all voxels are created equal: Reducing estimation bias in regional NODDI metrics using tissue-weighted means.NeuroImage · 2021Article
- Tract-specific analysis and neurocognitive functioning in sickle cell patients without history of overt stroke.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Multi-Channel 4D Parametrized Atlas of Macro- and Microstructural Neonatal Brain Development.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
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- A framework for multi-component analysis of diffusion MRI data over the neonatal period.NeuroImage · 2019Article
- Automated processing pipeline for neonatal diffusion MRI in the developing Human Connectome Project.NeuroImage · 2019Review
- Characterisation of brain volume and microstructure at term-equivalent age in infants born across the gestational age spectrum.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- Corticobulbar Tract Injury, Oromotor Impairment and Language Plasticity in Adolescents Born Preterm.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Fixel-based analysis of the preterm brain: Disentangling bundle-specific white matter microstructural and macrostructural changes in relation to clinical risk factors.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
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Abstract
Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is becoming an increasingly important tool for studying brain development. DWI analyses relying on manually-drawn regions of interest and tractography using manually-placed waypoints are considered to provide the most accurate characterisation of the underlying brain structure. However, these methods are labour-intensive and become impractical for studies with large cohorts and numerous white matter (WM) tracts. Tract-specific analysis (TSA) is an alternative WM analysis method applicable to large-scale studies that offers potential benefits. TSA produces a skeleton representation of WM tracts and projects the group's diffusion data onto the skeleton for statistical analysis. In this work we evaluate the performance of TSA in analysing preterm infant data against results obtained from native space tractography and tract-based spatial statistics. We evaluate TSA's registration accuracy of WM tracts and assess the agreement between native space data and template space data projected onto WM skeletons, in 12 tracts across 48 preterm neonates. We show that TSA registration provides better WM tract alignment than a previous protocol optimised for neonatal spatial normalisation, and that TSA projects FA values that match well with values derived from native space tractography. We apply TSA for the first time to a preterm neonatal population to study the effects of age at scan on WM tracts around term equivalent age. We demonstrate the effects of age at scan on DTI metrics in commissural, projection and association fibres. We demonstrate the potential of TSA for WM analysis and its suitability for infant studies involving multiple tracts.
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