This toolbox allows for optode arrangement based on anatomical landmarks based on five parcellation methods.
Alternatively, one can also load volumetric fMRI data (NIfTI or ANALYZE) as mask for the fNIRS optodes positions.
Before using fOLD, please carefully read its related manuscript:
- Zimeo Morais GA, Balardin JB, Sato JR, "fNIRS Optodes' Location Decider (fOLD): a toolbox for probe arrangement guided by brain regions-of-interest"
fOLD is available as standalone for Windows (*.exe): /Exe/fOLD_web.exe
or as Application for Matlab environment: /App/fOLD.mlappinstall
Please note that the App version is currently only compatible with Matlab 2017a.
Important Copyright-related guidelines for fOLD:
- fOLD is provided "as is" with no warranties and subject to change.
- The software shall not be redistributed without authorization.
- The aforementioned paper should be referenced if using fOLD.
Please make sure to read and cite the publications related to the parcellation atlases, from which the results are derived:
AAL2 (http://www.gin.cnrs.fr/en/tools/aal-aal2/):
- Rolls ET, Joliot M, Tzourio-Mazoyer N (2015) Implementation of a new parcellation of the orbitofrontal cortex in the automated anatomical labeling atlas. Neuroimage. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.075
- Tzourio-Mazoyer N, Landeau B, Papathanassiou D, Crivello F, Etard O, Delcroix N, Mazoyer B, Joliot M (2002) Automated anatomical labelling of activations in spm using a macroscopic anatomical parcellation of the MNI MRI single subject brain. Neuroimage 15:273-289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/nimg.2001.0978
AICHA (http://www.gin.cnrs.fr/en/tools/aicha):
- Joliot M, Jobard G, Naveau M, Delcroix N, Petit L, Zago L, Crivello F, Mellet E, Mazoyer B, Tzourio-Mazoyer N (2015) AICHA: An atlas of intrinsic connectivity of homotopic areas. J Neurosci Methods 254:46-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.07.013
Brodmann (http://www.cabiatl.com/mricro/mricro/lesion.html):
- Rorden C and Brett M (2000) Stereotaxic Display of Brain Lesions. Behavioural Neurology 12(4):191-200. http://doi.org/10.1155/2000/421719
Jülich (http://www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-1/EN/Forschung/_docs/SPMAnatomyToolbox/SPMAnatomyToolbox_node.html):
- Eickhoff SB et al. (2005) A new SPM toolbox for combining probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps and functional imaging data. NeuroImage 25, 1325–1335 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.12.034
- Eickhoff SB et al. (2006) Testing anatomically specified hypotheses in functional imaging using cytoarchitectonic maps. NeuroImage 32, 570–582 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.04.204
- Eickhoff SB et al. (2007) Assignment of functional activations to probabilistic cytoarchitectonic areas revisited. NeuroImage 36, 511–521 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.03.060
- Please also cite the individual (cytoarchitectonic) mapping papers for the selected structures. A full list of references for individual areal is available in Jülich's website referenced above.
LONI (http://loni.usc.edu/atlases/Atlas_Detail.php?atlas_id=12):
- Courtesy of Arthur W. Toga, Ph.D., USC Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute - <www.loni.usc.edu>
- Shattuck DW et al. (2008) Construction of a 3D probabilistic atlas of human cortical structures. NeuroImage 39, 1064–1080 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.09.031
And following are the two head atlases that were considered for tissue segmentation and photon transport simulations:
Colin27 (http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesAtlases/Colin27):
- Holmes CJ et al. (1998) Enhancement of MR Images Using Registration for Signal Averaging: J. Comput. Assist. Tomogr. 22, 324–333 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1053-8119(96)80030-9
SPM12 (TPM.nii - https://github.com/neurodebian/spm12/blob/master/spm_templates.man):
- IXI Dataset: http://brain-development.org/ixi-dataset/
fOLD also makes use of "Tools for NIfTI and ANALYZE image" (Jimmy Shen) under following copyright:
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The authors would also like to acknowledge the importance of following publicly available tools for fOLD development:
AtlasViewer (by Boas et al.): http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.2.2.020801
iso2mesh (by Qianqian Fang): http://iso2mesh.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi
Mesh2EEG (by Giacometti et al.): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.04.020
Monte Carlo Extreme (by Qianqian Fang et al.): http://mcx.space/
NFRI toolbox (by Jichi Medical University): http://www.jichi.ac.jp/brainlab/tools.html