Template Atlas
This is a sample HTML interface for an online mouse brain atlas. Only four images are included. As a result, the image map below is disabled. To view our full online atlases, visit the Mouse Brain Library home page at www.mbl.org. The template images can be accessed by clicking on the numbers in the frame below. You must be online to access any of the links in the text of this page.
If you click on the buttons for "grid" or "labels" in the brain section area before the page finishes loading images, you may not be able to view the gridded or labeled images without reloading the page. JavaScript must be enabled to view the small versions of the gridded and labeled sections, but the enlarged images can be viewed with any settings. They are so large that you will need to use the scroll bars to view different parts of the image. You may want to copy pages of the Altas to your computer and then view them using a program such as Photoshop.
About this Atlas: The brain is that of a 294-day-old C57BL/6J male with a body weight of 34.95 gm and a brain weight (fixed) of 476.1 mg. The animal's celloidin case ID number is 232 and you can view one of the slides used to make this atlas. Shrinkage during fixation and processing is 24% (linear). The in vivo grid compensates for this shrinkage. The anterior-posterior coordinates are taken from an excellent print atlas by K. Franklin and G. Paxinos (The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, Academic Press, San Diego, 1998, ISBN Number 0-12-547619-1. The abbreviations we have used to label the sections conform to those in the Franklin-Paxinos atlas.
The brain and sections were all processed as described in our methods section. The enlarged images have a pixel count of 3055 x 2030 and the resolution is 4.5 microns/pixel for the processed sections.