This is the dataset related to the paper "In-vivo probabilistic atlas of human thalamic nuclei based on diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging", E. Najdenovska*, Y. Aléman-Gómez*, G. Battistella, M. Descoteaux, P. Hagmann, S. Jacquemont, P. Maeder, J.-P. Thiran, E. Fornari and M. Bach Cuadra, Sci. Data. 5:180270 doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.270 (2018). *Equally contributed authors. We provide NifTI-1 files representing a digital atlas of seven thalamic subparts per hemisphere. More precisely, the files include the spatial probabilistic atlas maps for each thalamic subpart (Thalamus_Nuclei-HCP-4DSPAMs.nii.gz) and the maximum likelihood atlas (Thalamus_Nuclei-HCP-MaxProb.nii.gz) in MNI space. The region corresponding to each labeled thalamic part respectively is given in the look-up table Thalamic_Nuclei-ColorLUT.txt. The NIFTI files can be visualised with the main available tools such as tkmedit, freeview or 3D-Slicer. We also provide a step by step pseudo code for creating the atlas.

This work is also supported by interdisciplinary fund (2016) of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the Lausanne University.