Abstract
Approximately one in ten infants are born preterm, with each bearing some form of underdevelopment, ranging from behavioral problems to muscular disorders. These developmental issues can lead to increased healthcare costs, permanent injury, and even death. However, with the growth of whole-brain imaging, scientists have found new ways to study premature infants. Leading this overlapping of fields are magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI (fMRI), diffusion MRI (dMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and magnetoencephalography (MEG). These technologies give insight into a premature infant’s disposition to lower brain mass, suboptimal learning, and neuropathological lesions. Although every technique has flaws, whether it be in its spatial or temporal resolution or just fundamental limits, each has its own unique benefits. In this paper, we will observe how different techniques are used to study the neurological health of premature infants.
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