Cerebral Palsy is a nonprogressive condition that results in very heterogenous motor and other deficits that usually arises during the peripartum period. Many studies have tried to characterize changes in the brain of patients with cerebral palsy using fractional anisotropy and tractography based on diffusion tensor imaging, but few have utilized any of the more recent techniques, such as constrained spherical deconvolution, to more adequately account for complex fiber structures. These more recent techniques also offer more descriptive scalar measures of microstructure, such as apparent fiber density, that can be used to better characterize changes in neural structure.
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