Data sources and licences
The brain atlas is built entirely from openly licensed data. This page records what was used, under what terms, and what that means for anyone reusing it.
Atlas data
Harvard-Oxford cortical and subcortical structural atlases
Released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Distributed with FSL but not the property of the University of Oxford; the FSL licence explicitly carves these atlases out and places them under Creative Commons terms.
Makris N, et al. Decreased volume of left and total anterior insular lobule in
schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 2006;83(2-3):155-171.
Frazier JA, et al. Structural brain magnetic resonance imaging of limbic and thalamic
volumes in pediatric bipolar disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry
2005;162(7):1256-1265.
Desikan RS, et al. An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex
on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest. NeuroImage 2006;31(3):968-980.
Goldstein JM, et al. Hypothalamic abnormalities in schizophrenia: sex effects and genetic
vulnerability. Biological Psychiatry 2007;61(8):935-945.
What was derived: the four-dimensional probabilistic atlas was reduced to a single maximum-probability label volume at a 25 percent threshold, and per-structure surface meshes were generated from it by marching cubes with volume-preserving smoothing and quadric decimation. These derived files remain under CC BY-SA 4.0.
MNI152 template
MNI152 non-linear 6th generation T1 template, used as the anatomical underlay and as the source of the cortical shell mesh.
Copyright © 1993–2004 Louis Collins, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies. The authors and McGill University make no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided “as is” without express or implied warranty.
Structure descriptions
The anatomical and functional descriptions shown in the atlas were written for this site. They are offered under CC BY 4.0.
Software
NiiVue
Browser-based neuroimaging visualisation, used for all 3D and slice rendering. BSD 2-Clause. github.com/niivue/niivue
Barlow and Barlow Condensed
Typefaces by Jeremy Tribby, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Not a medical device. The atlas and everything else on this site is provided for education and research. It is not intended for diagnosis, treatment planning or any other clinical use.