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Fetal Brain Development

Layers of the developing cerebral cortex in the second trimester (week 17).

a–c - show a coronal histological slide of a 17 week fetal brain, a coronal MRI aDWI slice of a 17 week fetal brain, and an enlarged piece of the cerebral wall, respectively.

b - aDWI contrast clearly differentiates three layers that correspond to those regions in a and c.

The red contour is the boundary of the cortical plate and subplate (CP+SP). The dashed red curve separates the cortical plate and subplate.

The annotation of each layer is shown at the bottom right panel.

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Reference

<pubmed>19339620</pubmed>| PMC2721010 | J Neurosci.

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