Open Science CBS Neuroimaging Repository: Sharing ultra-high-field MR images of the brain

Neuroimage. 2016 Jan 1;124(Pt B):1143-1148. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.042. Epub 2015 Aug 25.

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging at ultra high field opens the door to quantitative brain imaging at sub-millimeter isotropic resolutions. However, novel image processing tools to analyze these new rich datasets are lacking. In this article, we introduce the Open Science CBS Neuroimaging Repository: a unique repository of high-resolution and quantitative images acquired at 7 T. The motivation for this project is to increase interest for high-resolution and quantitative imaging and stimulate the development of image processing tools developed specifically for high-field data. Our growing repository currently includes datasets from MP2RAGE and multi-echo FLASH sequences from 28 and 20 healthy subjects respectively. These datasets represent the current state-of-the-art in in-vivo relaxometry at 7 T, and are now fully available to the entire neuroimaging community.

Keywords: Data repository; High-resolution imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Quantitative imaging; Relaxometry; Ultra-high field.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Brain Mapping
  • Databases, Factual*
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Information Dissemination
  • Internet
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Neuroimaging*
  • Quality Control