Abstract #0884

Assessing the Impact of Excluding a Subset of the Diffusion Acquisition on the Resultant Fractional Anisotropy Values in the Preterm Brain

Antonios Makropoulos¹, Gareth Ball², Joseph V. Hajnal², A. David Edwards², Daniel Rueckert³, Serena J. Counsell²

¹Centre for the Developing Brain, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; ²Centre for the Developing Brain, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; ³Biomedical Image Analysis Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) allows the assessment of white matter development and injury in the developing brain.