TY - JOUR
T1 - The Japan Monkey Centre Primates Brain Imaging Repository for comparative neuroscience
T2 - an archive of digital records including records for endangered species
AU - Sakai, Tomoko
AU - Hata, Junichi
AU - Ohta, Hiroki
AU - Shintaku, Yuta
AU - Kimura, Naoto
AU - Ogawa, Yuki
AU - Sogabe, Kazumi
AU - Mori, Susumu
AU - Okano, Hirotaka James
AU - Hamada, Yuzuru
AU - Shibata, Shinsuke
AU - Okano, Hideyuki
AU - Oishi, Kenichi
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements We thank Drs. R. Sakamoto and D. Wu for technical advice on imaging analysis, Dr. Y. Tomogane for image diagnosis. We also thank Profs. A. Mikami and H. Imai for advice about primate brain samples, and Profs. T. Matsuzawa, M. Tomonaga, and J. Yamagiwa for permitting us to use the JMC primate brain sample collection. We thank Dr. E. Nakajima for help with manuscript editing. This work was financially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant for Young Scientists (B) (#26870827 and # 17K18097 to T.S.), a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad (#490 to T.S.), Brain/ MINDS by AMED (JP17dm0207002 to T.S./S.S., JP17dm0207001 to H.O./J.H.), and the Fakhri Rad Brite Star award from the Department of Radiology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (to K.O.). This work was also supported by the JMC collaborative research program (#2014013, #2015019, and #2016017) and the Cooperative Research Program of the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (#H25-E31 and# H26-C7 to H.O, and #H27-D23 to T.S.).
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© 2018, The Author(s).
PY - 2018/11/1
Y1 - 2018/11/1
N2 - Advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computational analysis technology have enabled comparisons among various primate brains in a three-dimensional electronic format. Results from comparative studies provide information about common features across primates and species-specific features of neuroanatomy. Investigation of various species of non-human primates is important for understanding such features, but the majority of comparative MRI studies have been based on experimental primates, such as common marmoset, macaques, and chimpanzee. A major obstacle has been the lack of a database that includes non-experimental primates’ brain MRIs. To facilitate scientific discoveries in the field of comparative neuroanatomy and brain evolution, we launched a collaborative project to develop an open-resource repository of non-human primate brain images obtained using ex vivo MRI. As an initial open resource, here we release a collection of structural MRI and diffusion tensor images obtained from 12 species: pygmy marmoset, owl monkey, white-fronted capuchin, crab-eating macaque, Japanese macaque, bonnet macaque, toque macaque, Sykes’ monkey, red-tailed monkey, Schmidt’s guenon, de Brazza’s guenon, and lar gibbon. Sixteen postmortem brain samples from the 12 species, stored in the Japan Monkey Centre (JMC), were scanned using a 9.4-T MRI scanner and made available through the JMC collaborative research program (http://www.j-monkey.jp/BIR/index_e.html). The expected significant contributions of the JMC Primates Brain Imaging Repository include (1) resources for comparative neuroscience research, (2) preservation of various primate brains, including those of endangered species, in a permanent digital form, (3) resources with higher resolution for identifying neuroanatomical features, compared to previous MRI atlases, (4) resources for optimizing methods of scanning large fixed brains, and (5) references for veterinary neuroradiology. User-initiated research projects beyond these contributions are also anticipated.
AB - Advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computational analysis technology have enabled comparisons among various primate brains in a three-dimensional electronic format. Results from comparative studies provide information about common features across primates and species-specific features of neuroanatomy. Investigation of various species of non-human primates is important for understanding such features, but the majority of comparative MRI studies have been based on experimental primates, such as common marmoset, macaques, and chimpanzee. A major obstacle has been the lack of a database that includes non-experimental primates’ brain MRIs. To facilitate scientific discoveries in the field of comparative neuroanatomy and brain evolution, we launched a collaborative project to develop an open-resource repository of non-human primate brain images obtained using ex vivo MRI. As an initial open resource, here we release a collection of structural MRI and diffusion tensor images obtained from 12 species: pygmy marmoset, owl monkey, white-fronted capuchin, crab-eating macaque, Japanese macaque, bonnet macaque, toque macaque, Sykes’ monkey, red-tailed monkey, Schmidt’s guenon, de Brazza’s guenon, and lar gibbon. Sixteen postmortem brain samples from the 12 species, stored in the Japan Monkey Centre (JMC), were scanned using a 9.4-T MRI scanner and made available through the JMC collaborative research program (http://www.j-monkey.jp/BIR/index_e.html). The expected significant contributions of the JMC Primates Brain Imaging Repository include (1) resources for comparative neuroscience research, (2) preservation of various primate brains, including those of endangered species, in a permanent digital form, (3) resources with higher resolution for identifying neuroanatomical features, compared to previous MRI atlases, (4) resources for optimizing methods of scanning large fixed brains, and (5) references for veterinary neuroradiology. User-initiated research projects beyond these contributions are also anticipated.
KW - Brain samples
KW - Comparative neuroscience
KW - Database
KW - Diffusion tensor imaging
KW - Endangered species
KW - Evolution
KW - Magnetic resonance imaging
KW - Primate
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U2 - 10.1007/s10329-018-0694-3
DO - 10.1007/s10329-018-0694-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 30357587
AN - SCOPUS:85055695157
SN - 0032-8332
VL - 59
SP - 553
EP - 570
JO - Primates
JF - Primates
IS - 6
ER -