Researchers Snap Most Detailed MRI Images Ever Taken of a Mammalian Brain | Popular Science

Researchers Snap Most Detailed MRI Images Ever Taken of a Mammalian Brain | Popular Science: "A typical MRI scan represents brain tissues in cubic units called voxels that can be thought of loosely as a 3-D pixel in a brain image. But since the new atlas images were taken at a resolution 300,000 times higher than those from a conventional MRI scanner, each voxel is much smaller and more detailed, shrinking from about 1-by-1-by-3 millimeters to about 20 microns per side (a micron being a millionth of a meter)."