ABSTRACT
This study is based on postmortem examination of seven autopsy brains provided by the Department of Neuropathology at the University Hospital Zurich. All brains were from normal subjects, with no history of neurological disease or pathological signs at autopsy. Ages of subjects ranged between 46 and 74 years and postmortem delays were between 4 and 24 hours (Table 2.1). Six of the brains had already been used for another atlas study (47) and neurochemical compartmentalization of the human basal ganglia (48). In one case (Hb7, Table 2.1; Fig. 2.3), stereotactic 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) were acquired with a 3-Tesla scanner (Philips Corp.) (see protocol below). An additional brain provided by the Department of Anatomy was used for correlation with high resolution proton density 3-Tesla MRI (see protocol below). However, because of the lack of informations on the history of the subject (age, gender, cause of death and postmortem delay), this case was not included in the atlas study per se.
