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Hiroshi Oishi received ”Merit Abstract Award” for his presentation at OHBM2021

Hiroshi Oishi received "Merit Abstract Award" for his presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2021 Annual Meeting.

Title: Quantitative structural mapping of the lateral geniculate nucleus subdivisions in living human brain

Author: Hiroki Oishi, Hiromasa Takemura, Kaoru Amano (The University of Tokyo)

Summary:
Oishi et al. used the latest quantitative MRI method (MTV mapping) to precisely measure the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), which is a crucial area for visual processing in the brain. They established a new method to identify subdivisions of the LGN in living human brains, which were difficult to identify by conventional structural imaging methods.