Analyzing the Neocortical Fine-Structure

  • Authors:
  • Frithjof Kruggel;Martina K. Brückner;Thomas Arendt;Christopher J. Wiggins;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IPMI '01 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

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 postmortem 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.