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SCIENCE
Volume 340, Issue 6139, Pages 1472-1475Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1235381
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- Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE)
- Portfolio project Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain
- Helmholtz Association Germany
- Human Brain Project, a European Union Flagship project
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Reference brains are indispensable tools in human brain mapping, enabling integration of multimodal data into an anatomically realistic standard space. Available reference brains, however, are restricted to the macroscopic scale and do not provide information on the functionally important microscopic dimension. We created an ultrahigh-resolution three-dimensional (3D) model of a human brain at nearly cellular resolution of 20 micrometers, based on the reconstruction of 7404 histological sections. BigBrain is a free, publicly available tool that provides considerable neuroanatomical insight into the human brain, thereby allowing the extraction of microscopic data for modeling and simulation. BigBrain enables testing of hypotheses on optimal path lengths between interconnected cortical regions or on spatial organization of genetic patterning, redefining the traditional neuroanatomy maps such as those of Brodmann and von Economo.
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