Neuro.Wiki · Atlas

The Three-DimensionalBrain

Cortex, tracts, deep grey, ventricles, brainstem, cerebellum, the circle of Willis and every cranial nerve — named, openly licensed, and free to turn in your hands.

Explore ↓ 437 structures · 12 systems
The Collection

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Structures are grouped by system. The model shows as a single ivory cast until you ask for the colours — an atlas first, a data figure second.

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437 named structures

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Credits & licence

Whole brain CC BY-SA 4.0 Cortex (DKT31) CC0 1.0

Whole brain — how it was built

  1. BodyParts3D — © The Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS). The original 3D anatomy this all descends from. lifesciencedb.jp/bp3d
  2. Z-Anatomy — rebuilt on BodyParts3D with TA2 terminology. CC BY-SA 4.0. z-anatomy.com
  3. CIT168 amygdala atlas — Tyszka & Pauli, 2016. CC BY-SA 4.0.
  4. Thalamic nuclei atlas — Najdenovska et al., Sci Data 2018. CC BY-SA 4.0.
  5. CIT168 subcortical atlas — Pauli, Nili & Tyszka, Sci Data 2018. CC BY 4.0.
  6. Hypothalamic region atlas — Neudorfer et al., Sci Data 2020. CC BY 4.0.
  7. HCP1065 tract templates — population-averaged white-matter pathways from the Human Connectome Project, used for the tract centrelines.
  8. Brain Project — assembled by Itay Inbar, who registered the atlases above onto the Z-Anatomy model and named every structure. brainproject
  9. Neuro.Wiki — the 3D visualisation platform built around the model: a WebGL viewer with search across every named structure, the 13 anatomical systems you can show, hide or isolate, hemisphere filtering, peel-away of the enclosing shells, and system colouring. On top of that a clinical layer — function and lesion notes written for a neurology reader, keyed to each structure — plus licence curation and this provenance chain. Part of the Neuro.Wiki NeuroAtlas alongside the modernised Gray plate collection. The model is redistributed under CC BY-SA 4.0 as its licence requires — geometry unmodified, split into one file per system so the cortex can render before the rest arrives.

⚠ The deep nuclei, hypothalamic zones and white-matter tracts are registered, not segmented — approximate to about 7 mm. This atlas is educational, not for clinical use, and not for measurement, targeting or planning.

Cortex (DKT31) — how it was built

  1. OASIS-TRT-20-1 — one subject’s MRI, surface-reconstructed.
  2. Mindboggle-101 — 31 cortical regions per hemisphere labelled by hand. Klein & Tourville, Front Neurosci 2012;6:171. CC0 1.0, via Harvard Dataverse.
  3. Neuro.Wiki — converted to glTF and rendered here.

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