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Nowadays, several canine brain MRI atlases have been provided. However, no reports are available regarding the measurements\u2019 reproducibility and little is known about the effect of formalin on MRI segmentation. Here, we assessed the segmentation variability of selected structures among operators (two operators segmented the same data) in a sample of 11 Beagle dogs. Then, we analyzed, for one Beagle dog, the longitudinal volumetric changes of these structures. We considered four conditions: <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>post mortem<\/jats:italic> (after euthanasia), <jats:italic>ex vivo<\/jats:italic> (brain extracted and studied after 1 month in formalin, and after 12 months). The MRI data were collected with a 3 T scanner. Our findings suggest that the segmentation procedure was overall reproducible since only slight statistical differences were detected. In the <jats:italic>post mortem\/ ex vivo<\/jats:italic> comparison, most structures showed a higher contrast, thereby leading to greater reproducibility between operators. We observed a net increase in the volume of the studied structures. This could be justified by the intrinsic relaxation time changes observed because of the formalin fixation. This led to an improvement in brain structure visualization and segmentation. 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