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Credits and licenses
Inner Anatomy is built on open scientific data and open-source software. Each source allows its use here, as long as it is credited and its terms travel with it.
Brain data
FreeSurfer fsaverage
The cortex and its surfaces, gyri (Desikan-Killiany atlas), the deep-structure segmentation, the head and the MRI slices.
Fischl B, Sereno MI, Tootell RBH, Dale AM (1999). High-resolution intersubject averaging and a coordinate system for the cortical surface. Human Brain Mapping 8:272-284.
License: FreeSurfer Software License.
Yeo 2011 functional networks
The seven brain networks view.
Yeo BTT et al. (2011). The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity. Journal of Neurophysiology 106:1125-1165.
License: MIT License.
CIT168 subcortical atlas
The two parts of the globus pallidus, substantia nigra, red nucleus, subthalamic nucleus, VTA, hypothalamus, mammillary bodies and habenula.
Pauli WM, Nili AN, Tyszka JM (2018). A high-resolution probabilistic in vivo atlas of human subcortical brain nuclei. Scientific Data 5:180063.
License: CC BY 4.0. Built from Human Connectome Project data, shared under the WU-Minn HCP Open Access Data Use Terms.
All of the data above has been changed for the app: resampled into one brain, turned into 3D meshes, smoothed and compressed.
Drawn by us
The thalamic nuclei, hippocampal fields, amygdala nuclei, cerebellar lobes and vermis, locus coeruleus, raphe nuclei, corpus callosum, fornix, fiber tracts and Brodmann areas are drawn by Inner Anatomy inside the fsaverage brain, following standard anatomy texts. Their borders are approximate. Nerves, glands and cells are modeled by hand.
Acknowledgements
Data were provided in part by the Human Connectome Project, WU-Minn Consortium (Principal Investigators: David Van Essen and Kamil Ugurbil; 1U54MH091657) funded by the 16 NIH Institutes and Centers that support the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; and by the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience at Washington University.
Sources of the facts
Each page lists, at its end, the sources its facts were checked against: open textbooks, medical references and peer-reviewed research.
Software and fonts
Inner Anatomy runs on open-source software, including three.js, React and meshoptimizer, and uses the Inter, Sora and Fraunces fonts. Read every license, and the FreeSurfer license in full.