Atlases

Atlases

• Brain museum ferret atlas

  • BrainMaps.org (currently no ferret but it is a general framework)

• Jan Hawthorn ferret brainstem atlas

• Pediatric Research article: Barnette et al., 2009 Characterization of Brain Development in the Ferret via MRI

• Ferret Brain Project at Institut Pasteur (Robert Toro)

• Michael Baum's ferret atlas (mostly anterior; one brain, with scale bars and with photos only) [PDF] [PDF-withscale] [PDF-photosonly] [highresraw_withscale] [highresraw_photosonly] [photocopy by Sarah Pallas]

• Population based MRI and DTI templates of the adult ferret brain and tools for voxelwise analysis.

• Cyto- and myeloarchitectural brain atlas of the ferret (Mustela putorius) in MRI aided stereotaxic coordinates by Susanne Radtke-Schuller [United Kingdom] [United States]

• Scalable Brain Atlas Ferret

Notes from Susi Radtke-Schuller's talk at Ferret Brain Meeting 2014

1. The caudal crest (far caudal on skull) is a reliable and unambiguous skull marker

2. There is a flat region (5000µm horizontal) that can be used to calibrate pitch

3. Males are 9% larger

Atlas tools

• MicroDraw -- Roberto Toro

• BrainBox -- Roberto Toro

• Roberto Toro's full set of tools: http://neuroanatomy.github.io/

Rule-of-thumb targeting

Template (Microsoft Word format) (how to add one of these)

• Kristina Nielsen's diagram for area 17/18 in animals 8wk-adult

• Farran Briggs's diagram for LGN in adult females

• Kristina Nielsen's diagram for area PSS in adult females