Science Visualized Neuroscience

A 100-hour MRI scan captured the most detailed look yet at a whole human brain

A device recently approved by the U.S. FDA made extremely precise images of a postmortem sample

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CLOSE-UP  A 3-D view of the entire human brain, taken with a powerful 7 Tesla MRI and shown here from two angles, could reveal new details on structures in the mysterious organ.

B.L. Edlow et al/bioRxiv.org 2019

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

Over 100 hours of scanning has yielded a 3-D picture of the whole human brain that’s more detailed than ever before.