Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the sensorimotor system in preterm infants

Pediatrics
Axel HeepHenning Boecker

Abstract

Preterm birth at <32 weeks' gestational age has a specific predilection for periventricular white matter injury. Early prediction of concomitant motor sequelae is a fundamental clinical issue. Recently, functional MRI was introduced as a noninvasive method for investigating the functional integrity of the neonatal brain. We aimed at implementing a unilateral passive forearm extension/flexion functional MRI paradigm in a routine clinical MRI setup to allow noninvasive mapping of the sensorimotor system in preterm infants and to relate the functional data to structural and behavioral data. Eight patients (median gestational age: 26.5 weeks; median birth weight: 885 g) were included. The functional MRI was performed at term-equivalent age (median: 39 weeks' postconceptional age) under chloral hydrate (50 mg/kg) sedation. In 5 of 8 patients, functional MRI data acquisition was successful. This resulted in 10 functional data sets (5 for passive stimulation of each forearm). Unilateral stimulation was associated with mainly bilateral activation of the primary sensorimotor cortex (n = 7 of 10 data sets), the prevailing hemodynamic response being a negative blood oxygenation level-dependent signal. Positive blood oxygenation level-depe...Continue Reading

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