Software for 'Talairach'-based Parcellation

摘要

Latest medical studies showed the importance of measuring the volumes of different 'Talairach boxes' and different tissue classes in each "box" of the human brain. We present new interactive software for 'Talairach' based parcellation of the human brain using magnetic resonance images (MRI). The software calculates automatically the volumes of different parcels of the intracranial cavity (ICC) and the volumes of different tissues in these parcels. To avoid resampling or interpolation of MRI data, the automatic parcellation was performed using the 'true' system of coordinates of the brain in MRI. This system is determined interactively by choosing anatomical landmarks on the MR images.