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Merged magnetic resonance and light sheet microscopy of the whole mouse brain.

ABSTRACT: We have developed workflows to align 3D magnetic resonance histology (MRH) of the mouse brain with light sheet microscopy (LSM) and 3D delineations of the same specimen. We start with MRH of the brain in the skull with gradient echo and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) at 15 μm isotropic resolution which is ~ 1,000 times higher than that of most preclinical MRI. Connectomes are generated with superresolution tract density images of ~5 μm. Brains are cleared, stained for selected proteins, and imaged by LSM at 1.8 μm/pixel. LSM data are registered into the reference MRH space with labels derived from the ABA common coordinate framework. The result is a high-dimensional integrated volume with registration (HiDiver) with alignment precision better than 50 µm. Throughput is sufficiently high that HiDiver is being used in quantitative studies of the impact of gene variants and aging on mouse brain cytoarchitecture and connectomics.

SUBMITTER: Johnson GA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151475 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Merged magnetic resonance and light sheet microscopy of the whole mouse brain.

Johnson G Allan GA Tian Yuqi Y Ashbrook David G DG Cofer Gary P GP Cook James J JJ Gee James C JC Hall Adam A Hornburg Kathryn K Kaczorowski Catherine C CC Qi Yi Y Yeh Fang-Cheng FC Wang Nian N White Leonard E LE Williams Robert W RW

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20230417 17

We have developed workflows to align 3D magnetic resonance histology (MRH) of the mouse brain with light sheet microscopy (LSM) and 3D delineations of the same specimen. We start with MRH of the brain in the skull with gradient echo and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) at 15 μm isotropic resolution which is ~ <i>1,000 times</i> higher than that of most preclinical MRI. Connectomes are generated with superresolution tract density images of ~5 μm. Brains are cleared, stained for selected proteins, a ...[more]

PMID: 37068254

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Merged magnetic resonance and light sheet microscopy of the whole mouse brain.

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