Orientation Terminology

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Orientation Terminology

• Superior/Middle/Inferior and Dorsal/Ventral
• Brain vs Spinal Cord
• Anterior/Posterior and Rostral/Caudal
• Medial/Lateral

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Slice orientation Terminology

• Axial (or Horizontal)

• Sagittal

Coronal
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6.24 Midsagittal view of the human brain.
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6.19 A midsagittal MRI of the human head.
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6.23 Surface view of the left hemisphere of the
human brain.
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6.25 Ventral view of the human brain. (Part 1)
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6.25 Ventral view of the human brain. (Part 2)
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6.26 Axial view of the human brain at the level
of the anterior commissure.
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6.27 Coronal view of the human brain at the
level of the anterior commissure.
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6.22 The cytoarchitectonic map of Brodmann.
(Part 1)
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6.22 The cytoarchitectonic map of Brodmann.
(Part 2)
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Tootell et al. (1998) Trends in Cognitive
Sciences 2, 174-183.
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6.20 A sagittal drawing of the white-matter
tracts of the human cerebral cortex.
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) measures white
matter anatomy
Mori et al., 2002

• Cortico-Thalamic projections and connections from
  motor cortex to the pyramidal tracts in the pons