The Digital Brain Bank, an open access platform for post-mortem imaging datasets

Autor: Benjamin C Tendler, Taylor Hanayik, Olaf Ansorge, Sarah Bangerter-Christensen, Gregory S Berns, Mads F Bertelsen, Katherine L Bryant, Sean Foxley, Martijn P van den Heuvel, Amy FD Howard, Istvan N Huszar, Alexandre A Khrapitchev, Anna Leonte, Paul R Manger, Ricarda AL Menke, Jeroen Mollink, Duncan Mortimer, Menuka Pallebage-Gamarallage, Lea Roumazeilles, Jerome Sallet, Lianne H Scholtens, Connor Scott, Adele Smart, Martin R Turner, Chaoyue Wang, Saad Jbabdi, Rogier B Mars, Karla L Miller
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: eLife, Vol 11 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2050-084X
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.73153
Popis: Post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides the opportunity to acquire high-resolution datasets to investigate neuroanatomy and validate the origins of image contrast through microscopy comparisons. We introduce the Digital Brain Bank (open.win.ox.ac.uk/DigitalBrainBank), a data release platform providing open access to curated, multimodal post-mortem neuroimaging datasets. Datasets span three themes—Digital Neuroanatomist: datasets for detailed neuroanatomical investigations; Digital Brain Zoo: datasets for comparative neuroanatomy; and Digital Pathologist: datasets for neuropathology investigations. The first Digital Brain Bank data release includes 21 distinctive whole-brain diffusion MRI datasets for structural connectivity investigations, alongside microscopy and complementary MRI modalities. This includes one of the highest-resolution whole-brain human diffusion MRI datasets ever acquired, whole-brain diffusion MRI in fourteen nonhuman primate species, and one of the largest post-mortem whole-brain cohort imaging studies in neurodegeneration. The Digital Brain Bank is the culmination of our lab’s investment into post-mortem MRI methodology and MRI-microscopy analysis techniques. This manuscript provides a detailed overview of our work with post-mortem imaging to date, including the development of diffusion MRI methods to image large post-mortem samples, including whole, human brains. Taken together, the Digital Brain Bank provides cross-scale, cross-species datasets facilitating the incorporation of post-mortem data into neuroimaging studies.
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