BigBrain (credit: Montreal Neurological Institute and Forschungszentrum Jülich)
A landmark three-dimensional (3-D) digital reconstruction of a complete human brain, called the BigBrain, shows for the first time the brain anatomy in microscopic detail — at a spatial resolution of 20 microns, smaller than the size of one fine strand of hair — exceeding that of existing reference brains presently in the public domain.
The new tool is made freely available to the broader scientific community to advance the field of neuroscience.
Researchers from Germany and Canada, who collaborated on the ultra-high resolution brain model, present their work in the 21 June issue of the journal Science.
“The authors pushed the limits of current technology,” said Science‘s senior editor Peter Stern about the international scientific effort. “Such spatial resolution exceeds that of presently available reference brains by a factor of 50 in each of the three spatial dimensions.”/.../
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