# New public domain high res MRI from MGH

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**Created:** [July 15, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-public-domain-high-res-mri-from-mgh/7593 "2019-07-15T15:17:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-public-domain-high-res-mri-from-mgh/7593/1 "2019-07-15T15:17:47Z")

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There’s an amazing high res ex-vivo scan available for anyone interested in looking at the glories of the human brain. Be prepared for a long download and some slow operations. But once it’s loaded it’s really interesting to look at. If your machine is reasonable in terms of ram most operations like slice pan/zoom/scroll are very interactive in all planes (I tested on a recent mac book air for example).

The [data is available here](https://datadryad.org/handle/10255/dryad.217211?show=full), and a [paper preprint describing the acquisition](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/05/31/649822.full.pdf) is also available.

The example videos below were made with the SceenCapture module (actual time for volume rendering is a few seconds per frame).

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-public-domain-high-res-mri-from-mgh/7593/2 "2019-07-15T19:09:39Z")

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Here’s another video showing interactive volume rendering of the 100um isotopic MRI using 3D Slicer accessed through a web browser remote session to a cloud GPU using [the instructions here](https://github.com/QIICR/SlicerGCPSetup)

Data size is 1760x1760x1280 floating point (just under 16g)

Hardware is a 8 core 30 gig of ram google cloud compute engine with attached v100 GPU with 16G of ram.

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**Author:** ![fedorov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/fedorov/32/14_2.png) [@fedorov](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/fedorov)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-public-domain-high-res-mri-from-mgh/7593/3 "2019-07-15T21:54:39Z")

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Very nice! I would just add a link back to this post and/or the original publication in the YouTube description for those who will come across the video from YouTube or other sources.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-public-domain-high-res-mri-from-mgh/7593/4 "2019-07-16T00:17:17Z")

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The links are there and have been all along, but you need to click the “show more” button - not sure why but youtube only shows the first couple of lines of your description.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-public-domain-high-res-mri-from-mgh/7593/5 "2019-07-16T12:49:42Z")

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> [@fedorov](#):
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> add a link back to this post

Ah, I see now what you meant - yes, I added a link to this thread. 😊

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**Author:** ![Melodicpinpon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/melodicpinpon/32/3254_2.png) [@Melodicpinpon](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Melodicpinpon)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-public-domain-high-res-mri-from-mgh/7593/6 "2020-01-02T11:57:45Z")

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Hi, Thank you for this share. Unfortunately the link in the original post send to a dead page. Is it still available somewhere else?

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-public-domain-high-res-mri-from-mgh/7593/7 "2020-01-02T14:58:16Z")

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hmm, not sure why it changed but this is the updated link:

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.119f80q](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.119f80q)