摘要
The human brain is smaller than you might expect:One of them,dripping with formaldehyde,fits in a single gloved hand of a lab supervisor.Soon,this rubbery organ will be frozen solid,coated in glue,and then sliced into several thousand wispy slivers,each just 60 micrometers thick.A custom apparatus will scan those sections using 3D polarized light imaging(3DPLI)to measure the spatial orientation of nerve fibers at the micrometer level.The scans will be gathered into
