Studying how the healthy human brain develops is important to understand early
pathological mechanisms and to assess the influence of fetal or perinatal events on later life …

In recent years, exploration of the developing brain has become a major focus for
researchers and clinicians in an attempt to understand what allows children to acquire …

During the second and third trimesters of human gestation, rapid neurodevelopment is
underpinned by fundamental processes including neuronal migration, cellular organization …

Linguistic processing is based on a close collaboration between temporal and frontal
regions connected by two pathways: the “dorsal” and “ventral pathways”(assumed to support …

Altered structural fetal brain development has been linked to neuro-developmental
disorders. These structural alterations can be potentially detected in utero using diffusion …

Objectives: Identify the clinical significance of diffusion tensor imaging. Review the physics
of diffusion tensor imaging. Identify the issues of concern for diffusion tensor imaging …

Abstract Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is increasingly used to
study the fetal brain in utero. An important computation enabled by dMRI is streamline …

The brain is subject to dramatic developmental processes during the prenatal period.
Nevertheless, information about the development of functional brain networks during …

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) of fetal brain is challenged by
frequent fetal motion and signal to noise ratio that is much lower than non-fetal imaging. As a …

Magnetic resonance imaging, histological, and gene analysis approaches in living and
nonliving human fetuses and in prematurely born neonates have provided insight into the …