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    Liu, Chao J.; Ammon, William; Siless, Viviana; Fogarty, Morgan; Wang, Ruopeng; Atzeni, Alessia; Aganj, Iman; Iglesias, Juan Eugenio; Zöllei, Lilla; Fischl, Bruce; Schmahmann, Jeremy D.; Wang, Hui

    NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.), 12/2021, Letnik: 244
    Journal Article

    •We reconstructed cubic centimeters of human cerebellar samples at micrometer resolution in five subjects.•Thickness of the granular layer varies greater than that of the molecular layer.•Cross-subject variability is higher in optical property than cortical morphology.•Our results suggest homogenous cell and myelin density in the cortical layers of human cerebellum despite the highly convoluted folding patterns. The surface of the human cerebellar cortex is much more tightly folded than the cerebral cortex. Volumetric analysis of cerebellar morphometry in magnetic resonance imaging studies suffers from insufficient resolution, and therefore has had limited impact on disease assessment. Automatic serial polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (as-PSOCT) is an emerging technique that offers the advantages of microscopic resolution and volumetric reconstruction of large-scale samples. In this study, we reconstructed multiple cubic centimeters of ex vivo human cerebellum tissue using as-PSOCT. The morphometric and optical properties of the cerebellar cortex across five subjects were quantified. While the molecular and granular layers exhibited similar mean thickness in the five subjects, the thickness varied greatly in the granular layer within subjects. Layer-specific optical property remained homogenous within individual subjects but showed higher cross-subject variability than layer thickness. High-resolution volumetric morphometry and optical property maps of human cerebellar cortex revealed by as-PSOCT have great potential to advance our understanding of cerebellar function and diseases.