Brodmann Area Maps (BA Maps)
The [http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/noFlashHome.php Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging] and the [http://www.fz-juelich.de/inb/inb-3/Home Institute of Neurosciences and Biophysics (INB)] have created an atlas of a subset of the Brodmann Areas, for usage in Freesurfer for automated parcellation.
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Note: maps are for neuroscientific purposes only! (no commercial use)
Labels
The following labels [https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/ba_labels_fsaverage.tar.gz are available for download] and display on the 'fsaverage' surface distributed with Freesurfer:
- ?h.BA1
- ?h.BA2
- ?h.BA3a
- ?h.BA3b
- ?h.BA4a
- ?h.BA4p
- ?h.BA6
- ?h.BA44
- ?h.BA45
- ?h.V1
- ?h.V2
- ?h.MT
Copy the file ba_labels_fsaverage.tar.gz to your $FREESURFER_HOME/subjects/fsaverage/labels directory, then type tar zxvf ba_labels_fsaverage.tar.gz to extract. To view a label, open an inflated surface (tksurfer fsaverage lh inflated) and then select File->Label->Load Label and select a label (lh.BA1.label, for example). Then select Tools->Labels->Copy Label Statistics to Overlay, then select View->Configure->Overlay and set Min threshold to 0 and Max threshold to 0.5, also select Linear threshold, and then press Apply. The label should appear on the surface. Only one label at a time can be displayed.
Cortical Atlas
TBD
References
[https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/ftp/articles/ba_maps2007.pdf Cortical Folding Patterns and Predicting Cytoarchitecture], Fischl, B., N. Rajendran, E. Busa, J. Augustinack, O. Hinds, B.T.T. Yeo, H. Mohlberg, K. Amunts, K. Zilles, (2007). Cerebral Cortex 2007, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhm225.
[https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/ftp/articles/hinds2007accurate.pdf Accurate prediction of V1 location from cortical folds in a surface coordinate system], Hinds, O.P., N. Rajendran, J.R. Polimeni, J.C. Augustinack, G. Wiggins, L.L. Wald, H.D. Rosas, A. Potthast, E.L. Schwartz and B. Fischl (2007). NeuroImage 2007.10.033.
- Quantitative analysis of cyto- and receptor architecture of the human brain, Zilles K, Schleicher A, Palomero-Gallagher N, Amunts K (2002). Brain Mapping: The Methods, edited by J. C. Mazziotta and A. Toga, USA: Elsevier, 2002, p. 573-602.
Cytoarchitecture of the cerebral cortex - more than localization, Amunts K, Schleicher A, Zilles K (2007). NeuroImage 37:1061-1065.
- Towards multimodal atlases of the human brain, Toga AW, Thompson PM, Mori S, Amunts K, Zilles K (2006). Nature Neuroscience Reviews, 7(12):952-966.
- Gender-specific left-right asymmetries in human visual cortex, Amunts K, Armstrong E, Malikovic A, Hoemke L, Mohlberg H, Schleicher A, Zilles K (2007). The Journal of Neuroscience, 27(6):1356-1364.