Labs / Brain scans

Where to get brain scans.

Open collections of brain MRI, CT and angiography for teaching and research. Each one lists what is inside, its licence, the credit to give, a link to view scans in the browser where the host offers one, and where to download or apply.

Imaging
Licence

Healthy brains

Healthy adults

Midnight Scan Club

CC0

OpenNeuro ds000224 · Washington University in St. Louis

Ten healthy adults, each scanned many times. Repeat structural scans plus time-of-flight MR angiograms and MR venograms of the same people.

  • T1
  • T2
  • TOF-MRA
  • MR venography
People
10
Scanner
3 T
Size
27 GB

Credit Gordon EM et al., Neuron 2017. OpenNeuro ds000224, CC0.

MPI-Leipzig Mind-Brain-Body (LEMON)

CC0

OpenNeuro ds000221 · Max Planck Institute, Leipzig

Healthy younger and older adults with quantitative T1 (MP2RAGE), T2, 64-direction diffusion and resting-state fMRI.

  • T1 (MP2RAGE)
  • T2
  • Diffusion
  • fMRI
People
318
Scanner
3 T
Size
397 GB

Credit Babayan A et al., Sci Data 2019. OpenNeuro ds000221, CC0.

Amsterdam Open MRI Collection (AOMIC)

CC0

OpenNeuro ds003097, ds002785, ds002790 · University of Amsterdam

Three sets of healthy young adults (ID1000, PIOP1, PIOP2) with T1, diffusion and fMRI, plus demographics and psychometrics.

  • T1
  • Diffusion
  • fMRI
People
928 + 216 + 226
Scanner
3 T
Size
57 to 126 GB each

Credit Snoek L et al., Sci Data 2021. OpenNeuro ds003097 / ds002785 / ds002790, CC0.

7 T human phantom

CC0

OpenNeuro ds003563 · Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

One healthy man scanned many times at 7 tesla: T1 at 250 micrometres from averaged runs, with high-resolution TOF angiography, T2, susceptibility and diffusion.

  • T1 250 µm
  • TOF-MRA
  • T2
  • QSM
  • Diffusion
People
1
Scanner
7 T
Size
9 GB

Credit Luesebrink F et al., Sci Data 2017 and 2021. OpenNeuro ds003563, CC0.

IXI

CC BY-SA 3.0

brain-development.org · Imperial College London and three London hospitals

Nearly 600 healthy adults aged 20 to 86, scanned at three sites on 1.5 T and 3 T scanners. Good for age and scanner variety.

  • T1
  • T2
  • PD
  • MRA
  • Diffusion
People
about 600
Scanner
1.5 T and 3 T
Format
NIfTI

Credit IXI dataset, brain-development.org, CC BY-SA 3.0. Work built from it must carry the same licence.

Mindboggle-101

CC BY 4.0

mindboggle.info · Mindboggle team

101 healthy brains with the cortex labelled by hand by experts (DKT protocol): the reference standard for checking cortical labels.

  • T1
  • Manual labels
  • Surfaces
People
101
Labels
Expert, manual
Format
NIfTI, VTK

Credit Klein A, Tourville J. Front Neurosci 2012;6:171. CC BY 4.0.

Stroke and disease

Patients

Stroke Outcome Optimization Project (SOOP)

CC0

OpenNeuro ds004889 · South Carolina stroke cohort

Clinical MRI from people with acute stroke, fully anonymised, with demographics and impairment scores. Sequences vary between patients, as in real practice.

  • FLAIR
  • DWI trace
  • ADC
  • T1
People
1,715
Setting
Acute stroke
Size
72 GB

Credit Stroke Outcome Optimization Project, OpenNeuro ds004889 (doi:10.18112/openneuro.ds004889.v1.1.2), CC0.

Aphasia Recovery Cohort (ARC)

CC0

OpenNeuro ds004884 · University of South Carolina

People with chronic stroke and speech or language impairment, many scanned at several sessions, so recovery can be followed over time.

  • T1
  • T2
  • FLAIR
  • Diffusion
  • fMRI
People
230
Setting
Chronic stroke
Size
293 GB

Credit Gibson M et al., Sci Data 2024;11:981. OpenNeuro ds004884, CC0.

UniToBrain

CC BY 4.0

Zenodo · University of Turin (DeepHealth)

CT perfusion from people with suspected acute stroke, 100 training and 15 test cases, on a 64-slice scanner.

  • CT perfusion
People
115
Setting
Acute stroke
Size
51 GB, one archive

Credit Gava U et al., UniToBrain, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5109415, CC BY 4.0.

UCLA Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics

CC0

OpenNeuro ds000030 · UCLA

Healthy controls alongside people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and ADHD, with structural, diffusion and functional MRI.

  • T1
  • Diffusion
  • fMRI
People
272
Scanner
3 T
Size
85 GB

Credit Poldrack RA et al., Sci Data 2016. OpenNeuro ds000030, CC0.

Vessels and aneurysms

Angiography

Lausanne TOF-MRA Aneurysm Cohort

CC0

OpenNeuro ds003949 · Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)

Time-of-flight MR angiograms from healthy controls and people with intracranial aneurysms, with manual aneurysm masks.

  • TOF-MRA
  • T1
  • Aneurysm masks
People
284 (157 with aneurysm)
Scanner
3 T
Size
15 GB

Credit Di Noto T et al., Neuroinformatics 2022. OpenNeuro ds003949, CC0.

Head CTA for intracranial aneurysm detection

CC BY 4.0

Zenodo · three clinical centres

CT angiography studies with expert-annotated aneurysms and aneurysm-free controls, including many small, hard-to-see aneurysms.

  • CTA
  • Aneurysm labels
Series
172 (82 with aneurysm)
Format
DICOM
Size
26 GB

Credit Blagosklonova E et al., doi:10.5281/zenodo.15697196, CC BY 4.0.

TopBrain

Open use, non-commercial

Zenodo · University Hospital Zurich

Paired CT angiography and TOF-MRA from the same patients, with voxel labels for more than 40 named arteries and veins.

  • CTA
  • TOF-MRA
  • Artery and vein labels
Patients
25 paired
Format
NIfTI
Size
2 GB

Credit TopBrain Challenge, University Hospital Zurich, doi:10.5281/zenodo.21972006. Commercial use needs the data owner’s permission.

TopCoW

Open use, non-commercial

Zenodo · University Hospital Zurich

Paired CTA and TOF-MRA with Circle of Willis labels from the TopCoW challenge, plus four external test sets labelled the same way.

  • CTA
  • TOF-MRA
  • Circle of Willis labels
Release
Training data + 4 test sets
Format
NIfTI
Size
14 GB

Credit TopCoW Challenge, doi:10.5281/zenodo.15692630. Commercial use needs permission; the ISLES 2024 CTA subset is CC BY-NC.

DIAS

CC BY 4.0

Zenodo · DSA-sequence Intracranial Artery Segmentation

Digital subtraction angiography runs from intracranial interventions, with expert labels of the intracranial arteries across the sequence.

  • DSA (2D + time)
  • Artery labels
Sequences
120
Frame size
800 × 800
Size
290 MB

Credit Liu W et al., Med Image Anal 2024, doi:10.1016/j.media.2024.103247. Data doi:10.5281/zenodo.11637181, CC BY 4.0.

CT

Head CT

BrainCT-1mm

CC BY 4.0

Hugging Face (CADS release) · Istanbul Medipol University

Non-contrast head CT from adults at 1 mm slices, one scanner and one protocol. No labels. Part of the CADS release, which needs a free Hugging Face login and accepting its terms.

  • Non-contrast CT
Scans
484
Slices
1 mm
Access
Free login

Credit BrainCT-1mm, Istanbul Medipol University, released in CADS (Xu et al., arXiv:2507.22953), CC BY 4.0.

Atlases and templates

Average brains and atlases

MNI ICBM 152 (2009)

MNI notice

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, McGill University

The standard average adult brain, built from 152 people, with T1, T2 and PD templates, tissue maps and brain masks.

  • T1
  • T2
  • PD
  • Tissue maps
People
152, averaged
Format
NIfTI, MINC
Use
Free with notice

Credit Fonov VS et al., NeuroImage 2011. Keep the McGill copyright notice with every copy.

Colin 27

MNI notice

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, McGill University

One man scanned 27 times and averaged: a sharp single-subject T1 brain, long used as a reference.

  • T1
People
1, 27 scans
Format
NIfTI, MINC
Use
Free with notice

Credit Holmes CJ et al., J Comput Assist Tomogr 1998;22:324. Keep the McGill copyright notice.

HCP-1065 tractography atlas

CC BY-SA 4.0

brain.labsolver.org · Fang-Cheng Yeh, University of Pittsburgh

White-matter tract atlas averaged from 1,065 young adults of the Human Connectome Project: tract volumes, streamlines and connectome tables.

  • Tract maps
  • Streamlines
People
1,065
Format
NIfTI, TRK
Viewer
DSI Studio

Credit Yeh FC, Nat Commun 2022;13:4933, CC BY-SA 4.0, plus the WU-Minn HCP data acknowledgment.

Apply for access

Controlled collections

ADNI

Data use agreement

Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative · LONI, USC

Long-running study of normal ageing, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease, with MRI, PET and biomarkers. Access after an online application; the agreement is renewed each year.

  • MRI
  • PET
  • Biomarkers

Credit As set out in the ADNI data use agreement and publication policy.

OASIS-2 and OASIS-3

Data use agreement

Open Access Series of Imaging Studies · Washington University in St. Louis

Older adults with and without dementia. OASIS-2: 150 people, 373 MRI sessions. OASIS-3: 1,378 people with MRI and PET. Non-commercial academic research only.

  • T1
  • T2
  • FLAIR
  • SWI
  • TOF
  • PET

Credit Marcus DS et al., J Cogn Neurosci 2010 (OASIS-2); LaMontagne PJ et al., medRxiv 2019 (OASIS-3).

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