The volume data structure of 3D BrainStation allows the identification of the distributed brain structures involved in specific behavioral tasks and pathologies. One of the benefits of relating functional activation to anatomic landmarks is to allow individual experiment comparisons with a large previously acquired body of brain mapping information related to the brain's cytoarchitecture. Development of Group Statistics - 3D BrainStation has implemented techniques to facilitate the process for developing statistics from a group of similar subjects. Development and visualization of brain surface 3D structures. The metabolic activity images often do not present features which exactly correlate with recognizable anatomic features and so are not easily interpreted.
Accurate registration forms the basis for image correlation.
Registration can be accomplished either prospectively or retrospectively. In the prospective method, external reference points are pre-established for both imaging modalities. When registering after imaging, both external fabricated fiducials or natural anatomical landmarks are used with a manual fitting procedure in order to accomplish registration. Volume Data Sets Images are acquired as a group of slices with predetermined thickness, resolution and spacing. 3D BrainStation imports these images and treats them as a single 3-dimensional data set.