Paxinos & Watson’s “The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates” (3rd edition) spatially registered to the Waxholm Space atlas of the rat brain

The dataset contains location metadata defining the spatial registration of the 3rd edition of “The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates” (Paxinos & Watson, 1996) to the MRI/DTI image volume of the Waxholm Space atlas of the rat brain (Version 1.01; RRID:SCR017124). The stereotaxic atlas of Paxinos & Watson contains 76 revised coronal diagrams from a young adult Wistar rat. The schematic diagram images were scanned from the book version and spatially registered to the Waxholm Space atlas of the rat brain. The dataset consists of an .xml file with spatial metadata that can be opened in the QuickNII tool (RRID:SCR016854) to view overlay images of the two atlases. The atlas images are not shared due to copyright restrictions, but the user can use own images together with the .xml file provided here, following the procedure provided in the accompanying data descriptor file. The dataset can be used for direct comparison of anatomical landmarks and spatial correspondences of brain region delineated in the two atlases.