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The correct reconstruction of individual (crossing) nerve fibers is a prerequisite when constructing a detailed network model of the brain. The recently developed technique Scattered Light Imaging (SLI) allows the reconstruction of crossing…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Miriam Menzel , Marouan Ritzkowski , Jan André Reuter , David Gräßel , Katrin Amunts , Markus Axer

Scattered Light Imaging (SLI) is a novel approach for microscopically revealing the fibre architecture of unstained brain sections. The measurements are obtained by illuminating brain sections from different angles and measuring the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Esteban Vaca , Miriam Menzel , Katrin Amunts , Markus Axer , Timo Dickscheid

Mapping the intricate network of nerve fibers is crucial for understanding brain function. Three-Dimensional Polarized Light Imaging (3D-PLI) and Computational Scattered Light Imaging (ComSLI) map dense nerve fibers in brain sections with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Franca auf der Heiden , Markus Axer , Katrin Amunts , Miriam Menzel

3D-Polarized Light Imaging (3D-PLI) is a neuroimaging technique used to study the structural connectivity of the human brain at the meso- and microscale. In 3D-PLI, the complex nerve fiber architecture of the brain is characterized by 3D…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Felix Matuschke , Kévin Ginsburger , Cyril Poupon , Katrin Amunts , Markus Axer

A comprehensive understanding of the organizational principles in the human brain requires, among other factors, well-quantifiable descriptors of nerve fiber architecture. Three-dimensional polarized light imaging (3D-PLI) is a microscopic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Alexander Oberstrass , Sascha E. A. Muenzing , Meiqi Niu , Nicola Palomero-Gallagher , Christian Schiffer , Markus Axer , Katrin Amunts , Timo Dickscheid

Three-dimensional Polarized Light Imaging (3D-PLI) is a promising technique to reconstruct the nerve fiber architecture of human post-mortem brains from birefringence measurements of histological brain sections with micrometer resolution.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-03-17 Miriam Menzel , Markus Axer , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen

The method 3D polarised light imaging (3D-PLI) measures the birefringence of histological brain sections to determine the spatial course of nerve fibres (myelinated axons). While the in-plane fibre directions can be determined with high…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Miriam Menzel , Jan A. Reuter , David Gräßel , Irene Costantini , Katrin Amunts , Markus Axer

In many laboratories, conventional bright-field transmission microscopes are available to study the structure and organization principles of fibrous tissue samples, but they usually provide only 2D information. To access the third…

Three dimensional Polarized Light Imaging (3D-PLI) is an optical technique which allows mapping the spatial fiber architecture of fibrous postmortem tissues, at sub-millimeter resolutions. Here, we propose an analytical and fast approach to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 A. Alimi , S. Deslauriers-Gauthier , F. Matuschke , A. Müller , S. E. A. Muenzing , M. Axer , R. Deriche

Comprehensive assessment of the various aspects of the brain's microstructure requires the use of complementary imaging techniques. This includes measuring the spatial distribution of cell bodies (cytoarchitecture) and nerve fibers…

3D-Polarized Light Imaging (3D-PLI) reconstructs nerve fibers in histological brain sections by measuring their birefringence. This study investigates another effect caused by the optical anisotropy of brain tissue - diattenuation. Based on…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Miriam Menzel , Julia Reckfort , Daniel Weigand , Hasan Köse , Katrin Amunts , Markus Axer

Understanding the cortical organization of the human brain requires interpretable descriptors for distinct structural and functional imaging data. 3D polarized light imaging (3D-PLI) is an imaging modality for visualizing fiber architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alexander Oberstrass , Jordan DeKraker , Nicola Palomero-Gallagher , Sascha E. A. Muenzing , Alan C. Evans , Markus Axer , Katrin Amunts , Timo Dickscheid

Diffusion MRI offers a unique probe into neural microstructure and connectivity in the developing brain. However, analysis of neonatal brain imaging data is complicated by inevitable subject motion, leading to a series of scattered slices…

The neuroimaging technique three-dimensional polarized light imaging (3D-PLI) provides a high-resolution reconstruction of nerve fibres in human post-mortem brains. The orientations of the fibres are derived from birefringence measurements…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Miriam Menzel , Kristel Michielsen , Hans De Raedt , Julia Reckfort , Katrin Amunts , Markus Axer

Previous simulation studies by Menzel et al. [Phys. Rev. X 10, 021002 (2020)] have shown that scattering patterns of light transmitted through artificial nerve fiber constellations contain valuable information about the tissue substructure…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Miriam Menzel , Silvania F. Pereira

The connectivity and structural integrity of the white matter of the brain is nowadays known to be implicated into a wide range of brain-related disorders. However, it was not before the advent of diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Q. Zhou , O. Michailovich , Y. Rathi

3D reconstruction of the fiber connectivity of the rat brain at microscopic scale enables gaining detailed insight about the complex structural organization of the brain. We introduce a new method for registration and 3D reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Sharib Ali , Martin Schober , Philipp Schlöme , Katrin Amunts , Markus Axer , Karl Rohr

Surface analysis of the cortex is ubiquitous in human neuroimaging with MRI, e.g., for cortical registration, parcellation, or thickness estimation. The convoluted cortical geometry requires isotropic scans (e.g., 1mm MPRAGEs) and good…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Karthik Gopinath , Douglas N. Greve , Sudeshna Das , Steve Arnold , Colin Magdamo , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Current methods for searching brain MR images rely on text-based approaches, highlighting a significant need for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. Directly applying 3D brain MR images to machine learning models offers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Shuhei Tomoshige , Hayato Muraki , Kenichi Oishi , Hitoshi Iyatomi

Ultra-high-field (7 Tesla) BOLD fMRI offers exceptional detail in both spatial and temporal domains, along with robust signal-to-noise characteristics, making it a powerful modality for studying visual information processing in the brain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yujian Xiong , Xuanzhao Dong , Sebastian Waz , Wenhui Zhu , Negar Mallak , Zhong-lin Lu , Yalin Wang
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