Quantitative cytoarchitectonic analysis of human cerebral cortical fields based on the data of automatic morphocorticography

The authors have demonstrated the stability and reproducibility of the main characteristics (form, position, and relationship between the amplitudes of characteristic extreme values) of the profiles of three fields of the human cerebral cortex (10, 17, and 44) constructed according to the findings of automatic layer-by-layer scanning of a series of sections at an interval of about 15 mm along the layer and measurements of the main morphometric parameters (volumetric ratio, number and the mean area of sections). The study has shown quantitative differences of the cytoarchitectonic structures of fields 10 and 44 which are in agreement with notions about the peculiarities of their morphofunctional organization.