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Abstract #3140

A New Approach to Mouse Brain Mapping

Marianne Dorothea Keller1,2, Charles Watson3, Kay Richards4, Rachel Buckley5, Nyoman Kurniawan6, Richard Beare5, Jana Vukovic2, Deming Wang1, Steven Yang1, Peter Zhao7, Nathan Faggian4, George Paxinos7, Steven Petrou4, Gary Egan4, Perry Bartlett2, Graham Galloway1, David Reutens8

1Centre for Magnetic Resonance, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; 2Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; 3Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia; 4Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Melbourne, Vic, Australia; 5Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia; 6Centre for Magnetic Resonance, University of Queensland, Brisbane,, Qld, Australia; 7Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 8Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia


When working with mouse brain models it becomes apparent, that anatomically detailed, three dimensional atlases are not readily available. On one hand, histological atlases are two dimensional, whereas three dimensional MRI atlases might only define 40 brain structures.