The Whole Brain Atlas

The Whole Brain Atlas CD-ROM was an information resource for brain imaging which integrated clinical information with multimodality imaging data, originally available only on the web.

The Atlas does not appear to be available now.

The Atlas CD-ROM included more than 13,000 brain images in 30 cases (2 fewer than the web site). Like the web site, image data on the Atlas CD-ROM was organised into linked structures via Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and was encoded on the CD-ROM in ISO9660 format. This made the Atlas CD-ROM accessible using a web browser. The CD-ROM-based Atlas provided the same interface to the database as the web-based original. Since the data was local (the computer’s CD-ROM drive) rather than remote (the Atlas website), access speed and reliability was greatly improved. The Atlas CD-ROM contained the Atlas of Normal Structure and Blood Flow, featuring The Top 100 Brain Structures, cases of normal ageing: structure and blood flow, vascular anatomy, as well as numerous clinical cases. Cases consisted of full volume datasets in one or several tomographic imaging modalities, including magnetic resonance (MR), computer tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine. Some cases included images acquired at several time points, to permit observation of time-related changes. Images from each case were superposed so that direct spatial and temporal comparisons can be made between image types and between timepoints. Cases include NORMAL BRAIN: Atlas of normal structure and blood flow; Top 100 Brain Structures; Can you name these brain structures?; Normal Ageing: structure and function; Normal Ageing: structure and function; Normal Ageing: coronal plane; Vascular anatomy. CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE (stroke or ’brain attack’): Acute stroke: speech arrest; Acute stroke: speaks nonsense words, ’fluent aphasia’; Acute stroke: writes, but can’t read, ’alexia without agraphia’; Subacute stroke: hesitating speech, ’transcortical aphasia’; Subacute stroke: loss of sensation; Chronic subdural hematoma; Cavernous angioma; Arteriovenous malformation with MRA; Vascular dementia; Acute stroke (MR diffusion imaging) with MRA: Carotid or Circle of Willis; Hypertensive encephalopathy; Multiple embolic infarctions; Hypertensive encephalopathy; Fatal stroke; Cerebral haemorrhage. NEOPLASTIC DISEASE (brain tumour): Glioma, TITc-SPECT with a Tour; Glioma, FDG-PET; Glioma, FDG-PET; Glioma, TITc-SPECT; Metastatic adenocarcinoma; Metastatic bronchogenic carsinoma; Meningioma; Sarcoma. DEGENERATIVE DISEASE: Alzheimer’s disease with a Tour; Alzheimer’s disease with functional MRI; Alzheimer’s disease; Huntington’s disease; Motor neuron disease; Cerebral calcinosis; Pick’s disease; Alzheimer’s disease, visual agnosia. INFLAMMATORY OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE: Multiple sclerosis with a Tour (time-lapse films); Multiple sclerosis; AIDS dementia; Lyme encephalopathy; Herpes encephalitis with a Tour; Creutzfeld-Jakob disease; and Cerebral Toxoplasmosis.

Computer type: IBM, Macintosh, UNIX

Version: Version 1.0, December 1997