DSI Image of a Whole Human Brain (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

DSI Image of a Whole Human Brain

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Curvature in this DSI image of a whole human brain turns out to be folding of 2-D sheets of parallel neuronal fibers that cross paths at right angles. This picture came from the new Connectom scanner.

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Van Wedeen, M.D., Martinos Center and Dept. of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University Medical School

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