Visualization of Nerve Fiber Orientations in the Human Optic Chiasm Using Photomicrographic Image Analysis

Abstract

These findings clarify the precise locations and crossing angles of crossing nerve fibers in the chiasm. This information may help explain the clinical observation of junctional scotoma and will provide a much better basis for structural modeling of chiasmal compression which, in turn, will improve our understanding of how and why bitemporal hemianopia occurs.