Diffusion MRI Images of Nerve Fibers in the Brain (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Diffusion MRI Images of Nerve Fibers in the Brain

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The new technique accelerates diffusion MRI as well as functional MRI. The colored tracks show the direction of nerve fiber bundles, providing a 3-D image of the axonal pathways in the white matter (cortex) of a resting human brain. A normal structural cross sectional image of the brain (fMRI) bisects the diffusion 3-D fibertrack image. The entire 3-D image was scanned in 8.5 minutes instead of 30 minutes.

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David Feinberg

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