From: Martin Striz (mstriz@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 10:43:47 MDT
On 10/25/05, Martin Striz <mstriz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >You can get less than 1 mm^3 voxels for a single scan (it's actually
> > >considered to be a 2D scan with a set thickness), or a short series of
> > >scans, although much lower resolutions are used for large sequences
> > >over time. 1 mm^3 is about 1000 neurons.
Clarification, neural density ranges from 1000 to 1,000,000 with a
global average of 70,000 - 100,000 neurons/mm^3. In order to get
mesoscale resolution, you would need imaging at a thousand times the
resolution of current fMRI technology. Makes the task all that much
harder.
Martin
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