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Analyzing the Neocortical Fine-Structure

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Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2001)

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Cytoarchitectonic fields of the human neocortex are defined by characteristic variations in the composition of a general six-layer structure. It is commonly accepted that these fields correspond to functionally homogeneous entities. Diligent techniques were developed to characterize cytoarchitectonic fields by staining sections of post-mortem brains and subsequent statistical evaluation. Fields were found to show a considerable interindividual variability in extent and relation to macroscopic anatomical landmarks. With upcoming new high-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) scanning protocols, it appears worthwile to examine the feasibility of characterizing the neocortical fine-structure from anatomical MR scans, thus, defining cytoarchitectonic fields by in-vivo techniques.

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  1. Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Frithjof Kruggel, Christopher J. Wiggins & D. Yves von Cramon

  2. Paul-Flechsig-Institute for Brain Research, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

    Martina K. Brückner & Thomas Arendt

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  1. Biomedical Engineering, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Michael F. Insana

  2. Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-2564, USA

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Kruggel, F., Wiggins, C.J., von Cramon, D.Y., Brückner, M.K., Arendt, T. (2001). Analyzing the Neocortical Fine-Structure. In: Insana, M.F., Leahy, R.M. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2082. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45729-1_26

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