The Brain

• right hemisphere of a 24-year-old male from the Vogt collection in Düsseldorf
• cause of death: hypovolemic shock; death to fixation interval: 3 hours
• brain weight at autopsy: 1383 g; fresh volume: 1316.3 cm³
• external morphology of the formalin-fixed brain
• the hemisphere was cut into 5 blocks (R1 - R5) before embedding in paraffin
• plane of sectioning: vertically to the intercommissural plane
• linear measurements
• section thickness: 20 µm
• publications where this brain was included (see Section 3.3 of the Atlas).