PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Aung Thu Htet
AU  - Gregory M. Noetscher
AU  - Edward H. Burnham
AU  - Aapo Nummenmaa
AU  - Sergey N. Makarov
TI  - Collection of Sixteen High-Quality Human Head CAD Models Generated with SimNIBS 2.1 Using Connectome Subject Data within MATLAB<sup>®</sup> Platform
AID  - 10.1101/480103
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 480103
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/11/29/480103.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/11/29/480103.full
AB  - The goal of this study is to introduce a collection of sixteen high-resolution, 2-manifold CAD compatible head models within the MATLAB platform available to all interested parties for electromagnetic and acoustic simulations. Each model contains skin, skull, CSF, GM, cerebellum, WM, and ventricles head compartments and possesses an “onion” topology: the grey matter shell is a container for white matter, ventricles, and cerebellum objects, the CSF shell contains the grey matter shell, the skull shell contains the CSF shell, and finally the skin or scalp shell contains the skull shell. The models are fully compatible with ANSYS ED FEM software, CST Studio Suite, Sim4Life/SEMCAD software, and other electromagnetic software packages.The collection is based on MRI data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) segmented using the SimNIBS 2.1/2.1.1 processing pipeline. The average number of triangular surface facets in a model is 866,000, the average triangle quality is 0.25, the average edge length is 1.48 mm, and the average surface mesh density or resolution is 0.57 points per mm2. If necessary, a finer model mesh can be created for every head using available MATLAB tools.