Jadrian Miles: New page: {{stub}} ''This page is excerpted from emails between Jadrian and David in June 2010.'' '''BIRN''' has two websites: one for a multi-university research consortium that include labs acro...

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New page: {{stub}} ''This page is excerpted from emails between Jadrian and David in June 2010.'' '''BIRN''' has two websites: one for a multi-university research consortium that include labs acro...

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'''BIRN''' has two websites: one for a
multi-university research consortium that include labs across the US
(MGH, UCLA, Cal Tech, JHU, WUSTL, etc.) and another for "a national
initiative to advance biomedical research through data sharing and
online collaboration" funded by the NIH. The two relevant websites
are <http://www.loni.ucla.edu/BIRN/> and
<http://www.birncommunity.org/>. I get the impression that the former
is in some sense an instantiation of the latter --- the UCLA BIRN is
an active group of researchers collecting and sharing data, while the
national BIRN is the think-tank that organized it or provided the
framework.

The specific goals of BIRN right now cover three areas: human brain
morphometry, human brain functional imaging, and mouse stuff. The
idea is to establish common protocols and have many different
facilities gather data over a wide subject base. Someone was talking
about this recently, I think; was it Sean Deoni?

<http://www.loni.ucla.edu/BIRN/Data/> has info about their acquisition
protocols. For humans, they're only doing a plain structural scan (I
can't tell from their protocol what it actually is) and functional
stuff. For mice, they're doing DTI and histology, but all the DTI
scans are performed at Cal Tech, and they don't specify the number of
gradient directions they're collecting. From the sounds of it, they
haven't collected a lot of mouse data so far.

BIRN might be a good resource for getting paired histology and
diffusion MRI data for mice, but it's not a public database, nor a
clearinghouse for any old data you care to give them, at least not
right now. As such I don't think we have anything to contribute to
them, though Steve might be interested in sending them human data.

ADNI is the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, and,
strangely enough, is another UCLA-centric, NIH-spurred, multi-facility
imaging initiative: the project website is
<http://www.loni.ucla.edu/ADNI/> and the initiative website is
<http://www.adni-info.org/>. Other initiatives that UCLA's Laboratory
of Neuro Imaging has their hands in are the ICBM (international
consortium for brain mapping) and MAP (mouse atlas project), as linked
at <http://www.loni.ucla.edu/>.

ICBM catalogues significant brain atlases, including Mori's 81-subject DTI-based atlas.

<http://capitalimaging.org> has a bunch of TBI studies with a 90 minute MRI acquisition that includes diffusion and pretty much everything else.

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