Abstract #3140

A New Approach to Mouse Brain Mapping

Marianne Dorothea Keller^1,2, 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.