A 3-dimensional digital atlas of the ascending sensory and the descending motor systems in the pigeon brain

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 269-281

  Güntürkün, Onur ^a   Verhoye, Marleen ^b   De Groof, Geert ^b   Van Der Linden, Annemie ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Bird; High field MRI; Hippocampus; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; COLUMBIDAE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR NEURONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 84872351318     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0400-y     Document Type: Article

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