posted on 2012-01-03, 02:12authored byChristophe Lenglet, Aviva Abosch, Essa Yacoub, Federico De Martino, Guillermo Sapiro, Noam Harel
Previous studies demonstrated the existence of these seven white matter pathways using histology in animals or MRI population studies. Besides the comprehensive quantification of the probability of connection between all basal ganglia and thalamus, we successfully reconstructed and visualized these pathways in individual human subjects using high resolution 7T MRI.