February 27, 2012 |??
Image of the Week #32, February 28th, 2012:
From: The Age of Connectome: Q&A with Sebastian Seung, by Jennifer Ouellette at Cocktail Party Physics.
Source: Gigandet X, Hagmann P, Kurant M, Cammoun L, Meuli R, et al. (2008) Estimating the Confidence Level of White Matter Connections Obtained with MRI Tractography. PLoS ONE 3(12): e4006. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004006
Plush toy, or Science? White matter connections in the human brain are imaged using diffusion MRI. This ?connectome? is output from a 2008 study by Gigandet et al attempting to determine statistical confidence in mapping neural connectivity.
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