Non-invasive mapping of connections between human thalamus and cortex using diffusion imaging.

Journal article

Evidence concerning anatomical connectivities in the human brain is sparse and based largely on limited post-mortem observations. Diffusion tensor imaging has previously been used to define large white-matter tracts in the living human brain, but this technique has had limited success in tracing pathways into gray matter. Here we identified specific connections between human thalamus and cortex using a novel probabilistic tractography algorithm with diffusion imaging data. Classification of t...

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Authors: Behrens, T; Johansen-Berg, H; Woolrich, M; Smith, S; Wheeler-Kingshott, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Nature neuroscience
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 750-757
• Publication date: 2003-07-01
• DOI: 10.1038/nn1075
• EISSN: 1546-1726
• ISSN: 1097-6256
• Language: English
• Keywords: Reproducibility of Results; Female; Adult; Thalamus; Male; Brain Mapping; Neural Pathways; Humans; Probability; Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Cerebral Cortex