Automated anatomical labelling atlas 3

Edmund T Rolls; Chu-Chung Huang; Ching-Po Lin; Jianfeng Feng; Marc Joliot

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116189

Automated anatomical labelling atlas 3

Neuroimage. 2020 Feb 1:206:116189. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116189. Epub 2019 Sep 12.

Authors

Edmund T Rolls¹, Chu-Chung Huang², Ching-Po Lin², Jianfeng Feng³, Marc Joliot⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China; Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: Edmund.Rolls@oxcns.org.
² Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China; Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China; Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; School of Mathematical Sciences, School of Life Science and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, PR China.
⁴ GIN UMR5293, IMN, CNRS, CEA, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

PMID: 31521825
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116189

Abstract

Following a first version AAL of the automated anatomical labeling atlas (Tzourio-Mazoyer et al., 2002), a second version (AAL2) (Rolls et al., 2015) was developed that provided an alternative parcellation of the orbitofrontal cortex following the description provided by Chiavaras, Petrides, and colleagues. We now provide a third version, AAL3, which adds a number of brain areas not previously defined, but of interest in many neuroimaging investigations. The 26 new areas in the third version are subdivision of the anterior cingulate cortex into subgenual, pregenual and supracallosal parts; subdivision of the thalamus into 15 parts; the nucleus accumbens, substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area, red nucleus, locus coeruleus, and raphe nuclei. The new atlas is available as a toolbox for SPM, and can be used with MRIcron.

Keywords: AAL; AAL2; AAL3; Automated anatomical labelling 3; Cingulate cortex; Human brain; Orbitofrontal cortex; Substantia nigra; Thalamus.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Atlases as Topic*
Brain / anatomy & histology*
Humans
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted*
Neuroimaging / methods*