Experimental Digital Atlas of Blood Supply Zones of the Internal Carotid Artery

Background: The compilation of a neuroanatomic atlas based on a large sample is essentially a fundamental research work, but compiling a digital atlas during the epoch of wide usage of radiodiagnostics methods in the clinical and experimental practice along with using the artificial intelligence systems brings a significant applied relevance to the research. Rats are the main species of laboratory animals, in which the studies of modeling the ischemic stroke, of testing the cerebroprotective drugs and of developing new strategies of regenerative therapy of stroke consequences are carried out. At the present moment, there is no available and comprehensive digital atlas of the arterial blood supply of the rat brain, while single research works are based on small groups of animals and their histological description. Within this context, it is deemed very interesting and important to take the first step in addressing this issue.