Table 1.
Terminology for morphological zones in the mid-gestation occipital and parietal lobes from different studies.
| Histology | MRI | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pial surface | Smart et al., 2002 | Altman and Bayer, 2002; Bayer and Altman, 2005 | Bystron et al., 2008 | Kostovic et al., 2002 | Huang et al., 2006, 2009 | Barkovich and Raybaud, 2012 | This study |
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MZ | SGL | MZ | MZ | CP | CP | Zone 5 |
| CP | CP | CP | CP | ||||
| SP | SP, STF1 | SP | SP | SP | SP | Zone 4 | |
| STF2 | Zone 3 | ||||||
| OFL | STF3 | IZ | IZ | IZ | GM | ||
| OSVZ | STF4,5 | SVZ | SVCZ | Zone 2 | |||
| IFL | STF6 | PVFZ | |||||
| ISVZ | SVZ | VZ (GM) | |||||
| Ventriclular surface | VZ | NPEa | VZ | Zone 1 | |||
aNPE, neuroepithelium; STF, stratified transitional field; SGL, subpial granular layer; IZ, intermediate zone; PVFZ, periventricular fiber rich zone; SVCZ, subventricular cellular zone. See Figure 1 for remaining abbreviations.