期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 27, 期 11, 页码 5274-5283出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw306
关键词
asymmetry; brain volume; cortical development; fetus; growth; quantitative MRI
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP-81116]
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD-2P30HD040677-11]
This study characterizes global and hemispheric brain growth in healthy human fetuses during the second half of pregnancy using three-dimensional MRI techniques. We studied 166 healthy fetuses that underwent MRI between 18 and 39 completed weeks gestation. We created three-dimensional high-resolution reconstructions of the brain and calculated volumes for left and right cortical gray matter (CGM), fetal white matter (FWM), deep subcortical structures (DSS), and the cerebellum. We calculated the rate of growth for each tissue class according to gestational age and described patterns of hemispheric growth. Each brain region demonstrated major increases in volume during the second half of gestation, the most pronounced being the cerebellum (34-fold), followed by FWM (22-fold), CGM (21-fold), and DSS (10-fold). The left cerebellar hemisphere, CGM, and DSS had larger volumes early in gestation, but these equalized by term. It has been increasingly recognized that brain asymmetry evolves throughout the human life span. Advanced quantitative MRI provides noninvasive measurements of early structural asymmetry between the left and right fetal brain that may inform functional and behavioral laterality differences seen in children and young adulthood.
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