Atlas Manifest File

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Atlas Manifest File

The following entries are supported in the manifest text file describing the atlas:

SPECIES = RAT

The supported species include HUMAN, PRIMATE, PIG, RAT, MOUSE

SPACE = MNI

Only the MNI (Montreal Neurological Institute) space for humans is supported as of now. If this line is present, a common set of template files with 2x2x2mm resolution is used.

APPLICATION = NO_PNEURO or NO_PNROD

If this line is present, the atlas is not listed in PNEURO or PNROD respectively.

TYPE = PROBABILISTIC, RANGE 0 / 100

The range specified for the data will be scaled to a probability value in the range [0,1]

INFO = html text

Text to be shown if the atlas info button is actived. Example:

INFO = <html><b>Px Rat (W.Schiffer) Atlas</b><br><br>The atlas is based on brain scans of adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (250-300g, age 52-62 days).<br>A T2-MRI and an FDG PET template was constructed by Schiffer et al. [1] in the Paxinos coordinate system <br>and can be used for template-based normalization. The VOI atlas contains 58 cortical and subcortical regions.<br><br>The atlas is distributed with PMOD by courtesy of <b>Dr. Wynne Schiffer</b>, at that time at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.