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Researchers from the £12 million Developing Human Connectome Project have used the dramatic advances in medical imaging the project has provided to visualise and study white matter pathways, the wiring that connects developing brain networks, in the human brain as it develops in the womb.
Published today in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America, the study used magnetic resonance images (MRI) with unprecedented resolution from more than 120 healthy fetuses across the second and third trimesters of pregnancy to define how the structural connections in their brains first develop.
This is the largest and most detailed publicly available fetal MRI data set which will be released through the developing Human Connectome Project with other state-of-the-art fetal MR data including anatomical and functional images.