Brain Templates

NiSpace provides built-in brain templates for use with parcellation and visualization. Fetch them via nispace.datasets.fetch_template():

from nispace.datasets import fetch_template
t1w = fetch_template("MNI152NLin2009cAsym", res="2mm", desc="T1w")

All other resolutions are sourced from TemplateFlow.

Note

Linked items point to files or folders in the NiSpace data repository (3mm resolution files only).

Space	Resolution	Available images
MNI152NLin6Asym	1mm	T1w, brain, mask, mask_gm, mask_gm_tight
MNI152NLin6Asym	2mm	T1w, brain, mask, mask_gm, mask_gm_tight
MNI152NLin6Asym	3mm	T1w, brain, mask, mask_gm, mask_gm_tight
MNI152NLin2009cAsym	1mm	T1w, brain, mask, mask_gm, mask_gm_tight
MNI152NLin2009cAsym	2mm	T1w, brain, mask, mask_gm, mask_gm_tight
MNI152NLin2009cAsym	3mm	T1w, brain, mask, mask_gm, mask_gm_tight
fsLR	4k	midthickness, inflated, sphere, medial, sulc, vaavg
fsLR	8k	midthickness, inflated, sphere, medial, sulc, vaavg
fsLR	32k	midthickness, inflated, veryinflated, sphere, medial, sulc, vaavg
fsLR	164k	midthickness, inflated, veryinflated, sphere, medial, sulc, vaavg
fsaverage	3k	white, pial, inflated, sphere, medial, sulc, vaavg
fsaverage	10k	white, pial, inflated, sphere, medial, sulc, vaavg
fsaverage	41k	white, pial, inflated, sphere, medial, sulc, vaavg
fsaverage	164k	white, pial, inflated, sphere, medial, sulc, vaavg

Note

Volumetric templates (MNI152NLin2009cAsym, MNI152NLin6Asym) are NIfTI files. Surface templates (fsaverage) are GIFTI files with separate left (L) and right (R) hemisphere files.