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High-resolution Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods for Human Midbrain
Published on: May 10, 2012
Whole-brain imaging reaches new heights (and lengths)
Alexandre Albanese1, Kwanghun Chung2,3,4
1Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
Elife
|January 21, 2016
Abstract:
Advances in microscopy and sample preparation have led to the first ever mapping of individual neurons in the whole mouse brain.
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