AAL / AAL2 / AAL3

An automated anatomical parcellation of the spatially normalized single-subject high-resolution T1 volume provided by the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) and an alternative parcellation of the orbitofrontal cortex (AAL2), the anterior cingulate, the thalamus, with the addition of some brain nuclei (AAL3).

 

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AAL 3v2:

Addition of the operating licence “GNU General Public Licence” in the readme, released on the 5th of April, 2024
Update involving small changes of the thalamic parcellation in line with the update of Freesurfer 7, released on the 10th of June, 2020 (AAL 3v1)
New version of anterior cingulate, thalamus and brain nuclei (nucleus accumbens, substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area, red nucleus, locus coeruleus, and raphe nuclei), released on the 30th of August, 2019 (AAL 3) 
SPM12 version of aal3 software : AAL3v2_for_SPM12.zip
AAL3 User guide

AAL 2: New version of orbital frontal cortex parcelation, released on the 27th of August 2015 :
SPM12 version of aal2 software : aal2_for_SPM12.tar.gz
AAL2 User guide

AAL 1: New version, released on the 10th of July 2018 :
SPM12 version of aal software :
https://kg.ebrains.eu/search/instances/Dataset/f8758eda-483e-45fe-8a88-a1fc806dde18
AAL User guide
SPM8 version of aal software : aal_for_SPM8.zip
SPM5 version of aal software : aal_for_SPM5.zip
SPM2 version of aal software : aal_for_SPM2.zip
SPM99 version of aal software : aal_for_SPM99.zip

 

Original references


Automated anatomical labelling atlas 3. Rolls, E. T., Huang, C. C., Lin, C. P., Feng, J., & Joliot, M., Neuroimage, 2020, 206, 116189, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116189

Implementation of a new parcellation of the orbitofrontal cortex in the automated anatomical labeling atlas. Rolls ET, Joliot M & Tzourio-Mazoyer N. NeuroImage 2015, 122: 1-5.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.075

Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain. N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, B. Landeau, D. Papathanassiou, F. Crivello, O. Étard, N. Delcroix, B. Mazoyer, and M. Joliot. NeuroImage 2002, 15 :273-289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/nimg.2001.0978

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