Should early cranial MRI of preterm infants become routine?

MRI is a neuroimaging technique which is increasingly being used in extremely preterm infants cared for on a level 3 neonatal intensive care unit. The technique was initially introduced in the 1980s in newborn infants with severe brain injury and was considered to be very useful for the prediction of especially motor outcome. Many centres have started to perform MRI routinely at discharge or term equivalent age (TEA) and have been able to show...