BrainRAT toolbox is a BrainVISA add-on module package providing additional processes and functionalities relating to 3D reconstruction and analysis of post mortem rodent brain sections.

BrainVISA, in-house image processing software, is already available for free download on the Internet (http://brainvisa.info). Since then, the core of BrainVISA is mainly developed in CEA/NeuroSpin by the LNAO lead by Jean-François Mangin, PhD (Yann Cointepas, PhD and D. Rivière, PhD) and by software engineers of the IFR 49 (Isabelle Denghien and Dominique Geffroy). The first prototype was developed by Yann Cointepas during years 2000/2001. BrainVISA also relies on Anatomist software visualization capacities.

Anatomist has been designed in the Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot of CEA and is now mainly developed by Denis Rivière, PhD. The current version stems from ten years of work on several prototypes. One of its main original features is the generic module dedicated to structural data, namely sets of objects linked one another into a graph structure. It also provides a toolbox for ROI manual drawing.