## Chapter 12/Figure 2.gif Back | Home | Next | Myelin slice data: sagittal and coronal This figure shows the Myelin voxel data viewed along the two other canonical axes. The cerebral cortex runs along the top (truncated) in the upper, sagittal, view. The Hippocampus is the light gray oblate structure at the upper middle. The thalamic radiations are at the right, containing dark obliquely-running myelinated line segments (which are continuous in 3D, but truncated in this plane). The thalamus itself is in the lower center. The bright region in the middle of the upper image is ventricle, bisected by a band of choroid plexus. The lower panel shows a coronal (horizontal) view. Anterior of the brain is to the right. Hippocampus is at the far left, thalamic radiations are to its right; cerebral cortex is above both of these structures; VB is the large circular region in the lower center of the picture. Vertical banding is from differential staining of the original sections, seen on edge in these views. Some alignment errors remain, in part due to differential shrinkage of adjacent sections during histological processing.