Direct Visualization and Characterization of The
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.25.008318; this version posted March 27, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Direct visualization and characterization of the 2 human zona incerta and surrounding structures 3 Running Title: Jonathan C. Lau1,2,3,4,*, Yiming Xiao2,3, Roy A.M. Haast2,3, Greydon Gilmore1,4, Direct visualization Kamil Uludag7,8,9, Keith W. MacDougall1, Ravi S. Menon2,3,6, of the zona incerta 1 1,2,3,4,6,& 1,2,3,4,5,6,& Andrew G. Parrent , Terry M. Peters , Ali R. Khan Keywords: brain; atlas; human; neuroanatomy; zona incerta; 7T; deep brain stimulation; T1; quantitative MRI 4 5 1Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada 6 2Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute Canada, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada 7 3Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada 8 4School of Biomedical Engineering, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada 9 5Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada 10 6Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada 11 7IBS Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Sungkyunkwan University, Seobu-ro, 2066, Jangan-gu, Suwon, South Korea 12 8Department of Biomedical Engineering, N Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seobu-ro, 2066, Jangan-gu, Suwon, South Korea 13 9Techna Institute and Koerner Scientist in MR Imaging, University Health Network, 100 College St, Toronto, ON, Canada 14 *Corresponding author 15 &Joint senior authors 16 17 Abstract: The zona incerta (ZI) is a small gray matter region of the deep brain first identified in the 19th 18 century, yet direct in vivo visualization and characterization has remained elusive.
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