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Exploration of the brain from the medial aspect

Occipital radiation of corpus callosum and parieto-occipital fissure

Image #17-4

KEYWORDS: Brain, Occipital lobe, Parietal lobe, Telencephalon.

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Exploration of the brain from the medial aspect

Occipital radiation of corpus callosum and parieto-occipital fissure

Detailed relations of the structures in the region of the parieto-occipital fissure are visible in this close-up of the posterior area of the previous view.

1 .	Radiation corpus callosum
2 .	Internal capsule (caudate nucleus removed)
3 .	Stria terminalis
4 .	Fornix (crus) (cut across)
5 .	Cut section of pulvinar
6 .	Limbic lobe (cut across)
7 .	Cerebral peduncle (substantia nigra removed)
8 .	Medullary substance of superior parietal lobule
9 .	Cuneus
10 .	Occipital part radiations corpus callosum
11 .	Posterior cerebral artery lying within depths of parieto-occipital fissure at its junction with the calcarine fissure
12 .	Calcarine fissure
13 .	Cingulum (cut across)
14 .	Lingual gyrus
15 .	Transverse fissure bounded superiorly by the cerebral hemisphere and inferiorly by the cerebellum