Communications Biology (Mar 2021)

Occipital Intralobar fasciculi: a description, through tractography, of three forgotten tracts

  • Maeva Bugain,
  • Yana Dimech,
  • Natalia Torzhenskaya,
  • Michel Thiebaut de Schotten,
  • Svenja Caspers,
  • Richard Muscat,
  • Claude J. Bajada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01935-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Bugain et al perform a virtual dissection and reconstruct the occipital intralobar tracts using diffusion MRI tractography. They provide a modern anatomical depiction of what had originally been described by the Dejerines in the 19th century, as well as a complete translation of the original text.