Comparison of probabilistic diffusion tensor tractography and histological tracer studies in the rhesus macaque
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Examinations of probabilistic tractography have identified major tracts across the brain, but little has been done to compare them to wellestablished tracer studies. Therefore, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) probabilistic tractography of white matter (WM) was performed on a DTI template generated from 271 rhesus macaques. Injection sites from tracer experiments in literature were chosen as seed regions from which to begin tractography. Results demonstrated the probabilistic connectivity maps obtained on the DTI template were largely consistent with connectivity maps from the tracer studies.
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