Abstract

Presented here is a comprehensive atlas of the human brain in stereotaxic spacethat uses a standardized nomenclature and clearly defines the boundaries of 48 structures, 44 of which are identified bilaterally. For this purpose, an MRI volume of a normal adult male brain was registered to Talairach coordinate system and manually segmented into 27 cortical and 21 subcortical structures (including grey, white and csf) following a specific brain hierarchical scheme. The result of this exercise is a three dimensional anatomical atlas of 1mm resolutionin coronal, horizontal and sagittal plane.