Newly developed brain maps with unprecedented detail are helping answer critical questions about brain blood flow. These new maps offer resolution finer than a millionth of a meter, reconstructed here with high microvessel density areas in red, intermediate density areas in white and low density areas in blue. Credit: Xiang Ji and Edmund O’Donnell, UC San Diego
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03/02/2021
Food for Thought: New Maps Reveal How Brains are Kept Nourished
BY:UC San Diego
Summary: Micro-scale depictions solve century-old puzzle of brain energy use and blood vessel clusters