Magnetic resonance imaging of the rhesus monkey brain

"The purpose of this work is to provide a comprehensive atlas of the rhesus monkey brain based on state-of-the-art MRI. It offers three-dimensional coverage at high isotropic spatial resolution and with contrasts which are compatible with human MRI studies. The work further includes advanced techniques such as magnetic resonance angiography and diffusion tensor imaging which may be exploited for a visualization of the intracranial vasculature and the virtual reconstruction of nerve fiber tracts, respectively. This MRI atlas is expected to serve ... as a reference source for easy identification of anatomical structures in the rhesus monkey brain. All cross-sectional images are presented in a stereotaxic coordinate system that is defined in accordance with internal brain structures rather than outer landmarks of the head or skull. Because the atlas entirely focuses on in vivo MRI, the resolution does not reach a microscopic scale similar to histology"--Introduction, p. 9.