A three-dimensional digital atlas of the starling brain

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1899-1909

  De Groof, Geert ^a   George, Isabelle ^b   Touj, Sara ^a,b   Stacho, Martin ^c   Jonckers, Elisabeth ^a   Cousillas, Hugo ^b   Hausberger, Martine ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^c   Van der Linden, Annemie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain atlas; European starling; High field MRI; Song control system; Songbird

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROL SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; STURNUS VULGARIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BOOK; NERVE TRACT; PROCEDURES; STARLING; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; STARLINGS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84922970396     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-015-1011-1     Document Type: Article

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