Abstract #0615

Robust detection of layer-specific activities in the human LGN

Yazhu Qian¹, Zihao Zhang¹, Jing An², Danny J.J. Wang^3,4, and Peng Zhang¹

¹State Key Lab of Brain and Cognitive Science,Institute of Biophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, ²Siemens Shenzhen Magnetic Resonance Ltd, Shenzhen, China, ³Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, ⁴Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus is the main relay station of retinal input to the visual cortex. It plays important roles in perception and cognition, and has close relationships with several eye and brain diseases. The current study showed that high resolution BOLD fMRI at 7T can reliably distinguish eye layers as well as magnocellular and parvocellular layer activities of the human LGN.

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