Table 2.

Surface area increase as a function of equivalent gestational age in nine preterm‐born infants, scanned both at early (31.6 weeks EGA) and term‐equivalent age time points (41.7 weeks EGA)

	Linear increase in left hemisphere white matter (cm2/week)	Linear increase in right hemisphere white matter (cm2/week)
Whole brain	26.23 (R 2 = 0.96)	25.79 (R 2 = 0.97)
Prefrontal cortex	6.00 (R 2 = 0.98)	6.21 (R 2 = 0.94)
Temporal lobe	3.44 (R 2 = 0.97)	3.20 (R 2 = 0.94)
Occipital lobe	3.86 (R 2 = 0.90)	3.77 (R 2 = 0.88)
Parietal lobe	5.80 (R 2 = 0.97)	5.59 (R 2 = 0.96)