Abstract #2314

Delineation of Human Primary Auditory Cortex on the Basis of a Combined T1 and T2 Weighted MR Contrast

Christian Wasserthal¹, Karin Engel², Jrg Stadler¹, Bruce Fishl^3,4, Patricia Morosan⁵, Andre Brechmann¹

¹Special-Lab Non-Invasive Brain Imaging, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany; ²Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany; ³Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States; ⁴Computer Science and AI Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; ⁵Institute of Medicine, Research Center Jlich, Germany

In the visual system the primary cortex area can robustly be identified by retinotopic mapping. In the auditory modality, a routine method to delineate the primary auditory cortex (PAC) area in individual human subjects is not available.