{"id":33640,"date":"2017-01-19T23:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T07:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/brain-atlas-advances-mri-exploration"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:50:59","slug":"brain-atlas-advances-mri-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/brain-atlas-advances-mri-exploration","title":{"rendered":"Brain atlas advances MRI exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-atlas-advances-mri-exploration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>January 20, 2017 \u2014 Researchers have developed a high-resolution, interactive anatomic brain-mapping atlas they say can overcome the limitations of functional MRI (fMRI) and expand the modality\u2019s value to conventional MR brain imaging and standard MRI applications.<\/p>\n<p>The Gibby-Cvetko atlas is designed to segment the brain into finite anatomic regions with a resolution of 1 mm or less to correct for variations in the brain sizes of patients and better delineate the location of cortical structures and skull morphology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a high-resolution, interactive, quantitative brain atlas that we warp to fit the patient and run inside a PACS improves accuracy and speed of reading fMRI studies,\u201d said co-developer Dr. Wendell Gibby, an adjunct professor of radiology at the University of California, San Diego. \u201cIt is a big step toward routine utilization of fMRI in clinical practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auntminnie.com\/index.aspx?sec=log&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.auntminnie.com%2findex.aspx%3fsec%3dsup%26sub%3dmri%26pag%3ddis%26ItemID%3d116332\">https:\/\/www.auntminnie.com\/index.aspx?sec=log&URL=http%3a%2f...D%3d116332<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, 2017 \u2014 Researchers have developed a high-resolution, interactive anatomic brain-mapping atlas they say can overcome the limitations of functional MRI (fMRI) and expand the modality\u2019s value to conventional MR brain imaging and standard MRI applications. The Gibby-Cvetko atlas is designed to segment the brain into finite anatomic regions with a resolution of 1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65312,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33640\/revisions\/65312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}