Gemma Sullivan1, Manuel Cabez1, Kadi Vaher1, Paola Galdi1, Gill Black1, David Q Stoye1, Alan J Quigley2, Elizabeth N York3, Michael J Thrippleton3, Mark E Bastin3, and James P Boardman1,3
1MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2Department of Paediatric Radiology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 3Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2Department of Paediatric Radiology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 3Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
By combining nutritional data with myelin-weighted imaging, we show that early breast milk exposure after preterm birth is associated with improved white matter myelination at term-equivalent age.
Figure 1. Example neonatal MTsat and MTR parametric maps.
Table 1. Participant demographics.
