The BigBrain is the brain of a 65 years old man with no neurological or psychiatric diseases in clinical records at time of death. The brain was embedded in parafin and sectioned in 7404 coronal histological sections (20 microns), stained for cell bodies. The BigBrain is the digitized reconstruction of the hi-res histological sections (20 microns isotropic).
This dataset contains 3D classified volumes from the BigBrain release 2015 published in the BigBrain Project website.
The volumes are available for several isotropic resolutions (100, 200, 300 and 400 microns) and classified for basic tissue classes:
- 0: background
- 1: CSF
- 2: cortical gray
- 3: white
- 4: cerebellum
- 5: layer 1 of cortex
- 6: sub-cortical gray
- 7: pineal gland
- 8: cerebellum/brainstem gray
- 9: cerebellum/brainstem white
Volumes are available in MINC and NIfTI formats.
The BigBrain dataset is the result of a collaborative effort between the teams of Dr. Katrin Amunts and Dr. Karl Zilles (Forschungszentrum Jülich) and Dr. Alan Evans (Montreal Neurological Institute).
Amunts, K. et al.: "BigBrain: An Ultrahigh-Resolution 3D Human Brain Model", Science (2013) 340 no. 6139 1472-1475, June 2013. https://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6139/1472.abstract
For more information please visit the BigBrain Project website.