A stereotaxic atlas is a number of records of brain structure of a particular animal accompanied with coordinates used in

stereotactic surgery Stereotactic surgery is a minimally invasive form of surgery, surgical intervention that makes use of a three-dimensional coordinates, coordinate system to locate small targets inside the body and to perform on them some action such as ablation, ...

. Stereotaxic atlases are developed using MRI data from a large number of subjects to visualize the topology of the brain. This allows for highly accurate, minimally invasive surgery based on 3D imaging. The development of stereotaxic atlases has been particularly important in making it possible to operate on areas deep in the brain that are not accessible through traditional surgical methods.

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A Stereotaxic Atlas Of The Brain Of The Zebra Finch
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