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ArticleScientific reports2020

An MRI-Derived Neuroanatomical Atlas of the Fischer 344 Rat Brain.

Dana Goerzen, Caitlin Fowler, Gabriel A Devenyi, Jurgen Germann, Dan Madularu, M Mallar Chakravarty, Jamie Near

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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31 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Dana GoerzenDepartment of Neuroscience, McGill University, H3A 0G4, Montreal, Canada. dana.goerzen@mail.mcgill.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9645-3503
Caitlin FowlerDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, H3A 0G4, Montreal, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0159-2637
Gabriel A DevenyiCentre d'Imagerie Cérébrale, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, H4H 1R3, Verdun, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7766-1187
Jurgen GermannCentre d'Imagerie Cérébrale, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, H4H 1R3, Verdun, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-8226
Dan MadularuCentre d'Imagerie Cérébrale, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, H4H 1R3, Verdun, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0040-3187
M Mallar ChakravartyDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, H3A 0G4, Montreal, Canada.
Jamie NearDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, H3A 0G4, Montreal, Canada.
Douglas Mental Health University Institute · CAMcGill University · CANortheastern University · US

Funding

CIHR PJT - 148751
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper reports the development of a high-resolution 3-D MRI atlas of the Fischer 344 adult rat brain. The atlas is a 60 μm isotropic image volume composed of 256 coronal slices with 71 manually delineated structures and substructures. The atlas was developed using Pydpiper image registration pipeline to create an average brain image of 41 four-month-old male and female Fischer 344 rats. Slices in the average brain image were then manually segmented, individually and bilaterally, on the basis of image contrast in conjunction with Paxinos and Watson's (2007) stereotaxic rat brain atlas. Summary statistics (mean and standard deviation of regional volumes) are reported for each brain region across the sample used to generate the atlas, and a statistical comparison of a chosen subset of regional brain volumes between male and female rats is presented. On average, the coefficient of variation of regional brain volumes across all rats in our sample was 4%, with no individual brain region having a coefficient of variation greater than 13%. A full description of methods used, as well as the atlas, the template that the atlas was derived from, and a masking file, can be found on Zenodo at www.zenodo.org/record/3700210. To our knowledge, this is the first MRI atlas created using Fischer 344 rats and will thus provide an appropriate neuroanatomical model for researchers working with this strain.

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AnimalsBrainFemaleImage Processing, Computer-AssistedImaging, Three-DimensionalMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleRatsRats, Inbred F344

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