A digital deformable anisotropic brain atlas based on the Talairach atlas and recursive spatial data structures

Presents a digital anisotropically deformable brain atlas based on the model of the Talairach atlas. The atlas is implemented as a DICOM 3.0-compliant graphic software tool that can be used for teaching and diagnosis support purposes. The tool supports the elastic anisotropic adaptation of the model to the tomographic volume of a particular patient, enabling the identification of the Talairach quadrants and automatically showing the Brodmann areas related to each quadrant. The system is now being evaluated in the scope of a neurological research project.