Table 2.
Comparison of IC and VCN volumes available from three bottlenose dolphin specimens.
| Specimen | Auditory Nucleus | Volume MRI (mm3) |
Volume Cavalieri (mm3) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marine 0142 | LIC | 1775 | 1362 |
| LVCN | 435 | 129 * | |
| Marine 0116 | LIC | 1345 | - |
| LVCN | 387 | - | |
| RIC | 1451 | 921 | |
| RVCN | 378 | 285 | |
| Dolphin 2 ** | RIC | - | 571 |
| LVCN | - | 199 |
* This volume corresponds to the intact rostral two-thirds of the VCN. ** Dolphin 2 processed and embedded in a different way from Marine 0142 and 0116. L and R indicate the nuclei from the left and right hemisphere, respectively.