Chennai, June 12 -- Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has released the world's most detailed 3D Atlas of the human brainstem, through its high-throughput brain imaging and computing platform that transforms whole human brains into 3D cell-resolution atlases.

Developed by Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre (SGBC) at IIT Madras, 'ANCHOR' (Atlas of Neurochemical Characterisation of the human brainstem with 3D Reconstruction) comprises the most comprehensive, multi-modal, 3D maps and atlases of the human brainstem to date, spanning from the prenatal period to childhood and adult brains, according to a release.

These maps encompass more than 200 brainstem nuclei and fiber tracts, reconstructed from hundreds of serial sections...