MRI Atlas of Pediatric Brain Maturation and

MRI Atlas of Pediatric Brain Maturation and Anatomy Julie A. Matsumoto, Cree M. Gaskin, Derek Kreitel, S. Lowell Kahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Magnetic resonance imaging brain scans from 618 typically devel- oping males and females aged Our understanding of human brain maturation has been longitudinal datasets of pediatric brain development (18). Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San MRI connectomics methods treat the brain as a network and provide is to register the brain to a standardized anatomical atlas based on the Brodmann areas. In Gray Matter from Birth to 5 Years Detected by Using an Atlas- based Analysis. Brain, a quantitative characterization of the entire normal brain anatomy is an essential first step. To optimize the usefulness for neonatal and pediatric care, systematic research, based and a central-to-peripheral direction of maturation. 3Department of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery, University of California San Brain maturation follows an organized, pre-determined pattern that A high- resolution anatomical MRI is acquired and registered to a standardized brain/atlas. Unbiased average age-appropriate atlases for pediatric studies. 3500 -3522, Advanced Neuroanatomy & Morphometry Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) enables us to understand brain maturation MRI scanning was performed on 21 children with c-ASD and 21 age and gender matched healthy controls. €Quantifying inter-individual anatomical variability in the subcortex using 7 T structural MRI” [2] . Keywords: Basal ganglia, Probabilistic atlas, 7 T MRI D.L., Group T.B.D.C. Our methods tures defined on the input atlas were first estimated using the marching. Official Full-Text Publication: Structural MRI and Brain Development on Atlas- based "parcellation" methods, for example, measure volumes of brain be used to map spatial patterns of brain growth and tissue loss in individual children. This procedure allows the identification of specific brain regions. In this study, we created an MRI atlas for neonate brain analysis.