1. A population stereotaxic positron emission tomography brain template for the macaque and its application to ischemic model.
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Nie B, Wang L, Hu Y, Liang S, Tan Z, Chai P, Tang Y, Shang J, Pan Z, Zhao X, Zhang X, Gong J, Zheng C, Xu H, Wey HY, Liang SH, and Shan B
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- Animals, Atlases as Topic, Brain anatomy & histology, Brain metabolism, Brain pathology, Brain Ischemia metabolism, Brain Ischemia pathology, Female, Macaca fascicularis, Macaca mulatta, Male, Species Specificity, Brain diagnostic imaging, Brain Ischemia diagnostic imaging, Brain Mapping methods, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron-Emission Tomography
- Abstract
Purpose: Positron emission tomography (PET) is a non-invasive imaging tool for the evaluation of brain function and neuronal activity in normal and diseased conditions with high sensitivity. The macaque monkey serves as a valuable model system in the field of translational medicine, for its phylogenetic proximity to man. To translation of non-human primate neuro-PET studies, an effective and objective data analysis platform for neuro-PET studies is needed., Materials and Methods: A set of stereotaxic templates of macaque brain, namely the Institute of High Energy Physics & Jinan University Macaque Template (HJT), was constructed by iteratively registration and averaging, based on 30 healthy rhesus monkeys. A brain atlas image was created in HJT space by combining sub-anatomical regions and defining new 88 bilateral functional regions, in which a unique integer was assigned for each sub-anatomical region., Results: The HJT comprised a structural MRI T1 weighted image (T1WI) template image, a functional FDG-PET template image, intracranial tissue segmentations accompanied with a digital macaque brain atlas image. It is compatible with various commercially available software tools, such as SPM and PMOD. Data analysis was performed on a stroke model compared with a group of healthy controls to demonstrate the usage of HJT., Conclusion: We have constructed a stereotaxic template set of macaque brain named HJT, which standardizes macaque neuroimaging data analysis, supports novel radiotracer development and facilitates translational neuro-disorders research., (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2019
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