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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2012 May 24;62(3):1848–1856. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.041

Table 2.

The rostrocaudal position of 21 landmarks in the Paxinos-Watson atlas (relative to the interaural zero) compared with their rostrocaudal position (in mm) in the MR coronal slices. In the far-right column, the discrepancy is listed in each case. The mean discrepancy was 0.27 mm

Structure AP atlas coordinate Slice number Slice AP coordinate Discrepancy
emergence of 7n −1.08 548 −1.075 0.005
rostral AmbC −3.00 467 −3.20 0.20
caudal IOPr −4.56 407 −4.70 0.14
caudal IOM −6.00 343 −6.30 0.30
rostral pyr decussation −5.65 332 −6.50 0.85
xscp caudal 1.08 634 0.975 0.03
4N center 1.68 657 1.55 0.13
RMC caudal 2.40 689 2.35 0.05
rcc caudal 3.72 738 3.57 0.15
fr ventral end 3.84 740 3.65 0.19
caudal mam. bodies 3.60 741 3.65 0.05
fr emerges Hb 5.40 802 5.18 0.02
caudal VMH 5.65 829 5.90 0.35
hippocampus rostral end 7.28 866 6.77 0.61
sox middle 7.56 916 8.05 0.41
rostral LOT 8.28 892 7.50 0.78
rostral to ac 9.00 955 9.00 0.00
rostral end of CPu 11.76 1050 11.37 0.39
ventral taenia tecta - middle 13.20 1125 13.25 0.05
frontal pole 15.12 1171 14.4 0.72
caudal GlA 14.64 1160 14.1 0.54