Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology

University of Florida College of Medicine

Paromita Bose, Neal Musson, J. Raymond Ballinger, Stephen E. Nadeau

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This atlas consists of sequential, contiguous, high resolution, proton density weighted, 3 mm thick MR images of the normal brain in three orthogonal planes. Its primary purpose is to serve as a teaching aid in neuroanatomy, neurology and neuroradiology. Specific structures can be located in an axial, coronal, or sagittal plane, and using a point and click technique, all three slices intersecting at that point can be viewed simultaneously, each in a 512 x 512 pixel format. Individual slices can then be downloaded and processed using proprietary software (e.g. Adobe Photoshop^TM) to meet the user's needs.

Methodology

Images were acquired on a 30-year-old male volunteer using a 3T scanner (General Electric, Milwaukee, WI), with a pulse dependent TR (ETL=4), TE = 19, FOV = 22 cm, slice thickness=3 mm, gap = 0. Axial images are parallel to the anterior commissure - posterior commissure (AC-PC) line. The center of the anterior commissure serves as the (0, 0, 0) point in the atlas coordinate system. However, the images were not adjusted to the Talairach coordinate system. Images are stored as 'gif' files.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Michelle M. Werner and David M. Peterson for their technical assistance. This project was funded by a grant from the University of Florida College of Medicine Education Center.