2D Atlas of the Rat Brain --
A DELINEATED 2D DATASET FOR USE WITH BRAIN 3.0

A film strip view showing a thumbview of a few of the 94 sections composing the atlas. The right hemispheres of all the sections are delineated and can be moved onto experimental sections (projecting to the right, left or both sides). On the left is one section shown in full resolution (30 microns in-plane). The rostro-caudal resolution is 300 microns. All delineations are objects and carry a name, as shown in the region properties card, as well as other information. They can also be manipulated by the full palette of region tools available in BRAIN.

The 2D Atlas of the Rat Brain is a computerized atlas. It is a set of 94 digital images of coronal brain sections and complete neuroanatomical delineations which can be visualized using BRAIN, a neurocartography software for the Macintosh. Using this software the whole atlas can be seen as a film strip or as individual sections. All delineations are objects which can be modified using all of the region handling tools found in BRAIN.

The main intended application of this atlas is support of macro-scale neurocartography. Using it, analysis of distribution maps such as those obtained by receptor autoradiography can be greatly accelerated (see discussion of atlas support in BRAIN).

2D ATLAS OF THE RAT BRAIN (Stuffit Archive: 7.7 MB)