What ’s that rapscallion thinking about when he ’s mush down that banana tree or tossing feces at you ? Well , you ’re depend at it - this is a single-valued function of where a macaque ’s thoughts live . It ’s made potential by newfangled 3Dvisualization algorithmsdeveloped by neuroscientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston which render a brain ’s billions of individual neuron connection in full - color 3D , with each seeable strand lay out several tens of thousands of the too - small - to - mental image neural pathways . It ’s all done by simply applying new processing to existing MRI scan data , and thankfully , it works on human brains too .
The technical school , called diffusion spectrum imaging , takes current data from MRI scans and analyzes it for the transit of H2O molecules along the individual neuron connections in the brain . It then processes it to spit out the 3D maps . It ’s potential to do on live subjects ( like the human brain image above ) , but more detail can be accomplish by scanning non - surviving samples for up to 24 hours .
Doctors are using the fresh icon to well sympathise our brain ’s infinitely complicated wiring , and to avoid important neuronic nets during surgeries . More including 3D model animations ( awesome ) at : [ Technology Review ]
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