Diencephalon
In topological terms, the diencephalon lies between the hypothalamus and the midbrain. It is made up of three segments, prosomere 1 (pretectum), prosomere 2 (thalamus), and prosomere 3 (the prethalamus). A number of MRI-based atlases of different parts of the mouse brain have already been published, but none of them displays the segments the diencephalon and their component nuclei. In this study we present a new volumetric atlas identifying 89 structures in the diencephalon of the male C57BL/6J 12 week mouse. This atlas is based on an average of MR scans of 18 mouse brains imaged with a 16.4T scanner. This atlas is available for download here. Additionally, we have created an FSL package to enable nonlinear registration of novel data sets to the AMBMC model and subsequent automatic segmentation.
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Model
ambmc-c57bl6-model-symmet_v0.8 [ mnc | nii ]
Label files (including index)
ambmc-c57bl6-label-diencephalon_v0.8 [ mnc | nii ]
References
If you use this data please cite
Charles Watson, Andrew L. Janke, Carlo Hamalainen, Shahrzad M. Bagheri, George Paxinos, David C. Reutens and Jeremy F.P. Ullmann, An ontologically consistent MRI-based atlas of the mouse diencephalon. - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.05.057
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