Paxinos & Watson’s “The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates” (1st edition) spatially registered to the Waxholm Space atlas of the rat brain

The dataset contains location metadata defining the spatial registration of the 1st edition of “The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates” (Paxinos & Watson, 1982) to the 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 43 coronal, 13 horizontal and 9 sagittal diagrams from young adult Wistar rats. 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 original atlas images from the Paxinos and Watson 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.