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 regions of interest (ROI) from the BigBrain release 2015 published in the BigBrain Project website.
These blocks of specific regions of the BigBrain (like BA10, Central Sulcus, Hippocampus,
etc) are available at various resolutions in MINC (.mnc) and NIfTI (nii.gz) 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.