Dear all,
I have been informed today that Jean Talairach passed away at the age of 96.
J. Talairach was a neurosurgeon at Saint-Anne hospital in Paris. He
revolutionized his field in the late 1940's by defining a patient-based
coordinate system and bringing stereotactic apparatus and techniques to
maturity.
He pushed further his ideas and efforts by elaborating a brain atlas and
spatial normalization approach (the Talairach referential and coordinate
system) with his long-term colleague Jean Bancaud.
"Talairach J, Tournoux P: Co-Planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain.
New York, Thieme Medical, 1988', is a reference that has been enormously
cited in our field.
Best regards,
Sylvain.
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Sylvain Baillet
Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging Laboratory
University of Paris, Pierre & Marie Curie
Hôpital de la Salpêtrière
http://cogimage.dsi.cnrs.fr
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