My very own Brain!

These pictures are from an NMR (MRI) scan of my brain, done as part of a friend's research into which regions of the brain are used in recognising patterns. Two types of scans are done, many quick but low-resolution ones to monitor blood flow, and then a slow high-resolution one to squish the results onto a standard brain shape. These pictures are all from this high-resolution scan, which produces a 3D image of 256 x 256 x 256 cells (16 megapixels!)

To see different slices, move your mouse pointer over the blocks below my head. The left-most block brings up the 128th slice, through the middle of my head. Successive blocks bring up parallel slices, spaced at one third the full resolution (to keep the page size down to a mere 700k.)

Credits due:

• The Wolfson brain imaging centre at Addenbrooke's hospital, Cambridge, where the scan was done.
  
  
• MRIcro software, which was the inspiration for the javascript viewer above, and was used to produce the 2D images.

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Using these images

Lots of people seem to want to use these images in various projects, on and off the web. This is generally fine by me, but please email me with details of what you'd like to do first. A link from your page back here would be appreciated.