3D MYELOARCHITECTONIC MRI ATLAS BASED ON VOGT-VOGT HISTOLOGICAL DATA

This repository contains a 3D MRI atlas containing detailed myeloarchitectural parcellations derived from Vogt & Vogt histological
data. It is based on the popular MNI-Colin27 brain template and has been validated on in-vivo MRI data.
As such, this atlas provides fine-grained cortical parcellations and is intended for use with both structural and functional imaging data and is 
Associated grey-level index maps provide information on myelin density per individual cortical field. 

If you are implementing this atlas in your own research, please reference this publication [insert DOI link to pubmed]

The atlas includes:
1) Vogt-Vogt annotation files in MNI space (*.annot) for both hemispheres for use with FreeSurfer
2) Grey-level index maps in Conte69 and Colin27 space (*.gii)
3) Volumetric atlas versions in MNI space in NifTi file-format for both hemispheres (vogt_multilabel_rh/lh.nii) with correspoding label descriptions
4) The Colin27 brain template in nifti format to facilitate registration purposes (colin27_T1.nii) 

Getting started:
We provide code to apply the atlas to individual data which has been processed with FreeSurfer.
Please note that subjects needs to be processed with the recon -all pipeline prior to atlas application. 

Usage notes:
The atlas can be applied to individual data through the FreeSurfer command line interface and is fully scriptable.
Volumetric nifti-files are intended for use with imaging toolkits that do not use surface processing, e.g. SPM

How to get involved
If you've found a bug, are experiencing a problem, or have questions, create a new issue with some information about it!
Furthermore, we would appreciate your feedback on how implementing this atlas has helped your project.

Need help or questions:
If you have any questions or need help, feel free to email us at @xxxx.com

Licence
The MNI myeloarchitectonic atlas is licensed u the BDS-3 license, while FreeSurfer environment uses a more restrictive framework. 
Details and usage notes can be found here: [https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FreeSurferSoftwareLicense]. Further information on the MNI-Colin27 brain
template is available from [https://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesAtlases/Colin27]