Available Now in 3-D: An Ultra-High Resolution Brain (3 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Available Now in 3-D: An Ultra-High Resolution Brain (3 of 5)

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The sections from the preserved brain were stained to detect cell bodies. After this step, the individual sections—of which there were over 7,400—were digitized to create the final product: a high-resolution 3-D reference brain that will be freely available to the public. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 21, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Katrin Amunts at Research Centre Jülich in Jülich, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "BigBrain: An Ultrahigh-Resolution 3D Human Brain Model."

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[Image courtesy of Amunts, Zilles, Evans <i>et al</i>.]

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