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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.
