Preface to the Special Issue

Abstract

Neuroimaging in current times has provided us with structural and functional insights into the human brain, which up until now have been unmatched in science history. However, even with the most recent scientific developments at hand, the 3-D brain images gained using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are limited by poor resolution of 1 mm in each direction.

Katrin Amunts, professor of structural–functional brain mapping, and her colleagues at the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance in Germany recently sought to fill the image gap by building a “BigBrain model,” exceeding the typical resolution by a factor of 50 in each direction.¹ The new 3-D model …