3-dimensional Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Atlas of the Rat Brain

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2013 Jul 18

PMID 23861758

Citations 30

Authors

Ashley Rumple

Matthew McMurray

Josephine Johns

Jean Lauder

Pooja Makam

Marlana Radcliffe

Ipek Oguz

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Abstract

Anatomical atlases play an important role in the analysis of neuroimaging data in rodent neuroimaging studies. Having a high resolution, detailed atlas not only can expand understanding of rodent brain anatomy, but also enables automatic segmentation of new images, thus greatly increasing the efficiency of future analysis when applied to new data. These atlases can be used to analyze new scans of individual cases using a variety of automated segmentation methods. This project seeks to develop a set of detailed 3D anatomical atlases of the brain at postnatal day 5 (P5), 14 (P14), and adults (P72) in Sprague-Dawley rats. Our methods consisted of first creating a template image based on fixed scans of control rats, then manually segmenting various individual brain regions on the template. Using itk-SNAP software, subcortical and cortical regions, including both white matter and gray matter structures, were manually segmented in the axial, sagittal, and coronal planes. The P5, P14, and P72 atlases had 39, 45, and 29 regions segmented, respectively. These atlases have been made available to the broader research community.

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