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Streamlines in mouse brain indicating direction of white matter tracts
Visualization of entire mouse brain showing whole brain interconnectivity, with colored streamlines indicating the direction of white matter tracts. Data were acquired with MRI using a technique called diffusion weighted imaging.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DBI 1707405.]
Learn more in the University of Chicago news story Researchers image an entire mouse brain for the first time. (Date image taken: 2019; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Sept. 20, 2021)
Credit: Sean Foxley, Department of Radiology, University of Chicago
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