STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the release of NeuroApps: MRI Atlas of Human White Matter, the first in a new series of apps created for the iPad. Based on the MRI Atlas of White Matter by Kenichi Oishi, Andreia V. Faria, Peter C M van Zijl and Susumu Mori, this interactive application re-makes the atlas for a new generation of neuroscience researchers, clinicians and students.
The NeuroApps: MRI Atlas of Human White Matter is projected to help researchers, clinicians and students find, visualise, and learn to identify the major pathways through the brain and their proximity to key neuroanatomical structures. The app also allows the user to scroll through the brain in sequence to follow a tract from beginning to end. Based on the images from the print book, in the app they have been digitally enhanced and the resulting 4-colour images are much sharper on the iPad device which also allows image zooming for more detailed study.
Available exclusively through iTunes, the app includes both MRI and DTI images and allows the user to switch between MRI and DTI view for any location in the brain. Two types of stereotaxic coordinates (Talairach and MNI coordinates) are provided to define brain locations. The format allows viewer to compare coronal, horizontal, and sagittal sections in one view. Fifty three white matter structures, 38 cortical areas, and 22 deep gray matter structures are defined and labeled. In addition, locations of 11 white matter tracts and 36 cytoarchitectonic areas are defined. These structures can be interactively superimposed on the MRI/DTI images. The trajectories of the tracts can be followed sequentially through the brain.
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