Abstract
An in-vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedure is described that allows one to obtain three-dimensional high quality images of the entire brain of small birds such as the canary (20 g) and the starling (75 g) with an image resolution of 0.1 mm (58-113 μm, dependent on the size of the imaged bird). The entire imaging procedure took about 2 h after which the birds recovered from anaesthesia uneventfully and could be reused for subsequent additional imaging. This non invasive MRI technique enables to correlate brain measures with behavioural or physiological data that are dynamic in nature and could permit significant progress for bird neurological research. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Verhoye, M., Van der Linden, A., Van Audekerke, J. et al. Imaging birds in a bird cage: in-vivo FSE 3D MRI of bird brain. MAGMA 6, 22–27 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02662508
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