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A time-course study of actively stained mouse brains: Diffusion tensor imaging parameters and connectomic stability over 1 year.

ABSTRACT: While the application of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), tractography, and connectomics to fixed tissue is a common practice today, there have been limited studies examining the effects of fixation on brain microstructure over extended periods. This mouse model time-course study reports the changes of regional brain volumes and diffusion scalar parameters, such as fractional anisotropy, across 12 representative brain regions as measures of brain structural stability. The scalar DTI parameters and regional volumes were highly variable over the first 2 weeks after fixation. The same parameters were consistent over a 2-8-week window after fixation, which means confounds from tissue stability over that scanning window were minimal. Quantitative connectomes were analyzed over the same time with extension out to 1 year. While there was some change in the scalar metrics at 1 year after fixation, these changes were sufficiently small, particularly in white matter, to support reproducible connectomes over a period ranging from 2-weeks to 1-year post-fixation. These findings delineate a scanning period, during which brain volumes, diffusion scalar metrics, and connectomes are remarkably consistent.

SUBMITTER: Xiao J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461792 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A time-course study of actively stained mouse brains: Diffusion tensor imaging parameters and connectomic stability over 1 year.

Xiao Jaclyn J Hornburg Kathryn J KJ Cofer Gary G Cook James J JJ Pratson Forrest F Qi Yi Y Johnson G Allan GA

NMR in biomedicine 20210923 1

While the application of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), tractography, and connectomics to fixed tissue is a common practice today, there have been limited studies examining the effects of fixation on brain microstructure over extended periods. This mouse model time-course study reports the changes of regional brain volumes and diffusion scalar parameters, such as fractional anisotropy, across 12 representative brain regions as measures of brain structural stability. The scalar DTI parameters an ...[more]

PMID: 34558744

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