High-Resolution Fiber and Fiber Tract Imaging Using Polarized Light Microscopy in the Human, Monkey, Rat, and Mouse Brain

Axons and Brain Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 369-389

  Zilles, Karl ^a,b,c   Palomero Gallagher, Nicola ^a   Gräßel, David ^a   Schlömer, Philipp ^a   Cremer, Markus ^a   Woods, Roger ^d,e   Amunts, Katrin ^a,f   Axer, Markus ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Section JARA FIT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

brainstem; cerebral cortex; Connectivity; fiber tracts; human brain; monkey brain; myeloarchitecture; olfactory bulb; polarized light imaging; rodent brain

Indexed keywords

EID: 85179284873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801393-9.00018-9     Document Type: Chapter

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