Abstract #0008

Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of Human α-Motor Neurons & Neural Processes

Jeremy Joseph Flint^1,2, Brian Hansen³, Sharon Portnoy^1,2, Choong H. Lee^2,4, Michael A. King⁵, Michael Fey⁶, Franck Vincent⁶, Peter Vestergaard-Poulsen³, Stephen J. Blackband^2,7

¹Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, USA; ²McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, USA; ³Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark; ⁴Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, USA; ⁵Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, USA; ⁶Bruker Biospin; ⁷National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Talahassee, Fl, USA

The ability to resolve microstructural details of biological tissues has been a long sought-after goal in the field of MR imaging. Magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) has evolved to reveal ever-finer details of the cellular organization which makes up tissue parenchyma. Such techniques are needed so that we may understand the primary structural origins underlying MR signal changes resultant from pathology. In the current study, we report what we believe to be the first instances of cellular imaging in humans and neural process imaging in humans and pigs using magnetic resonance microscopy techniques.