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Abstract

The recent progress of medical imaging due to the scanner, the MRI, and the three-dimensional reconstruction of cerebral structures calls for a better knowledge of brain anatomy; it is to be noted, though, that the accurate anatomy of the brain surface was already known thanks to the pioneering work of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century research workers, such as Eberstaller (1884), Cunningham (1892). Déjernie (1895), Retzius (1896), Zuckerkandl (1903), Elliot-Smith (1907) [14, 15, 22, 29, 30, 56, 75]. Since then, more recent techniques have led to a precise view of the deeper structures.But, as those details were not visible in vivo before the diffusion of scanner and magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI) Exploration, such knowledge was deemed superfluous, or even useless. Nowadays, this situation has drastically changed and the neurologists, neurosurgeons, and neuroradiologists acknowledge the need to know more about anatomy. The aim of this volume is to provide those specialist acknowledge the need to know more about anatomy. the The aim of this volume is to provide those specialists with that information for their own reearch.