IXI Dataset is a collection of 600 MR brain images from normal, healthy subjects. The MR image acquisition protocol for each subject includes:

• T1, T2 and PD-weighted images
• MRA images
• Diffusion-weighted images (15 directions)

The data has been collected at three different hospitals in London:

• Hammersmith Hospital using a Philips 3T system (details of scanner parameters)
• Guy’s Hospital using a Philips 1.5T system (details of scanner parameters)
• Institute of Psychiatry using a GE 1.5T system (details of the scan parameters not available at the moment)

The data has been collected as part of the project:

• IXI – Information eXtraction from Images (EPSRC GR/S21533/02)

The images in NIFTI format can be downloaded from here:

This data is made available under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license. If you use the IXI data please acknowledge the source of the IXI data.