Exploration of the brain from the medial aspect

Occipital radiation of corpus callosum and parieto-occipital fissure

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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