Brain Connectivity Exposed by Anisotropic X-ray Dark-field Tomography
Wieczorek M, Schaff F, Jud C, Pfeiffer D, Pfeiffer F, Lasser T (2018)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2018
Journal
Book Volume: 8
Article Number: 14345
Journal Issue: 1
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32023-y
Abstract
To understand the interaction of different parts of the human brain it is essential to know how they are connected. Such connections are predominantly related to the brain’s white matter, which forms the neuronal pathways, the axons. These axons, also referred to as nerve fibers, have a size on the micrometer scale and are therefore too small to be imaged by standard X-ray systems. In this paper, we use a grating interferometer and a method based on Anisotropic X-ray Dark-field Tomography (AXDT) with the goal to generate a three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction of these functional structures. A first preclinical survey shows that we successfully reconstruct the orientations of the brain fibers connectivity with our approach.
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APA:
Wieczorek, M., Schaff, F., Jud, C., Pfeiffer, D., Pfeiffer, F., & Lasser, T. (2018). Brain Connectivity Exposed by Anisotropic X-ray Dark-field Tomography. Scientific Reports, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32023-y
MLA:
Wieczorek, Matthias, et al. "Brain Connectivity Exposed by Anisotropic X-ray Dark-field Tomography." Scientific Reports 8.1 (2018).
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