SPLASh: A software tool for stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories
While computer-aided planning of human neurosurgeries is becoming more and more common, animal researchers still largely rely on paper atlases for planning their approach before implanting recording chambers to perform invasive recordings of neural activity, which makes this planning process tedious...
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| author | Daniel J. Sperka Jochen eDitterich Jochen eDitterich |
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| description | While computer-aided planning of human neurosurgeries is becoming more and more common, animal researchers still largely rely on paper atlases for planning their approach before implanting recording chambers to perform invasive recordings of neural activity, which makes this planning process tedious and error-prone. Here we present SPLASh (Stereotactic PLAnning Software), an interactive software tool for the stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories. SPLASh has been developed for monkey cortical recordings and relies on a combination of structural MRIs and electronic brain atlases. Since SPLASh is based on the neuroanatomy software Caret, it should also be possible to use it for other parts of the brain or other species for which Caret atlases are available. The tool allows the user to interactively evaluate different possible placements of recording chambers and to simulate electrode trajectories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ad39ee3f4c334b799d9e768ed184cd0b2022-12-21T22:22:54ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neuroinformatics1662-51962011-03-01510.3389/fninf.2011.000018922SPLASh: A software tool for stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectoriesDaniel J. Sperka0Jochen eDitterich1Jochen eDitterich2University of CaliforniaUniversity of CaliforniaUniversity of CaliforniaWhile computer-aided planning of human neurosurgeries is becoming more and more common, animal researchers still largely rely on paper atlases for planning their approach before implanting recording chambers to perform invasive recordings of neural activity, which makes this planning process tedious and error-prone. Here we present SPLASh (Stereotactic PLAnning Software), an interactive software tool for the stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories. SPLASh has been developed for monkey cortical recordings and relies on a combination of structural MRIs and electronic brain atlases. Since SPLASh is based on the neuroanatomy software Caret, it should also be possible to use it for other parts of the brain or other species for which Caret atlases are available. The tool allows the user to interactively evaluate different possible placements of recording chambers and to simulate electrode trajectories.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fninf.2011.00001/fullSoftwaremonkeyelectrode tajectoriesrecording chamberstereotactic coordinates |
| spellingShingle | Daniel J. Sperka Jochen eDitterich Jochen eDitterich SPLASh: A software tool for stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories Frontiers in Neuroinformatics Software monkey electrode tajectories recording chamber stereotactic coordinates |
| title | SPLASh: A software tool for stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories |
| title_full | SPLASh: A software tool for stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories |
| title_fullStr | SPLASh: A software tool for stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories |
| title_full_unstemmed | SPLASh: A software tool for stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories |
| title_short | SPLASh: A software tool for stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories |
| title_sort | splash a software tool for stereotactic planning of recording chamber placement and electrode trajectories |
| topic | Software monkey electrode tajectories recording chamber stereotactic coordinates |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fninf.2011.00001/full |
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