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Cerebral Cortex 1991; 1:374-379
© Oxford University Press 1991

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Intracortical Structure in vivo

H. Damasio1,, R. O. Kuljis1, W. Yuh2, G. W. Van Hoesen1,3 and J. Ehrhardt2

1Departments of Neurology (Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience) Iowa City, Iowa 52242, 2Department of Radiology Iowa City, Iowa 52242, 3Department of Anatomy, The University of Iowa College of Medicine Iowa City, Iowa 52242

Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA 52242.

Current neuroimaging methodologies have lacked the resolution needed to visualize cortical organization at the microscopic level. As a consequence, when neurological diseases disrupt the internal structure of the cerebral cortex, the changes can only be visualized postmortem, by histological examination. This imposes severe limitations in the in vivo diagnosis and investigation of those conditions. Here, we report on a magnetic resonance technique that permitted the visualization of some features of cerebral cortex in 14 living human subjects and in 2 fixed brains. The key finding was a periodic pattern of low-and high-signal slabs, oriented perpendicularly to the pial surface, that seem to correspond, respectively, to columnar modules and myelin septa. The key parameters of the new protocol included modifications in pulse sequence, field of view, number of repetitions, and plane of sectioning.


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