Schaeffer David J, Klassen L Martyn, Hori Yuki, Tian Xiaoguang, Szczupak Diego, Yen Cecil Chern-Chyi, Cléry Justine C, Gilbert Kyle M, Gati Joseph S, Menon Ravi S, Liu CiRong, Everling Stefan, Silva Afonso C
Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States.
Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
Neuroimage. 2022 May 15;252:119030. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119030. Epub 2022 Feb 22.
The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is quickly gaining traction as a premier neuroscientific model. However, considerable progress is still needed in understanding the functional and structural organization of the marmoset brain to rival that documented in longstanding preclinical model species, like mice, rats, and Old World primates. To accelerate such progress, we present the Marmoset Functional Brain Connectivity Resource (marmosetbrainconnectome.org), currently consisting of over 70 h of resting-state fMRI (RS-fMRI) data acquired at 500 µm isotropic resolution from 31 fully awake marmosets in a common stereotactic space. Three-dimensional functional connectivity (FC) maps for every cortical and subcortical gray matter voxel are stored online. Users can instantaneously view, manipulate, and download any whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) topology (at the subject- or group-level) along with the raw datasets and preprocessing code. Importantly, researchers can use this resource to test hypotheses about FC directly - with no additional analyses required - yielding whole-brain correlations for any gray matter voxel on demand. We demonstrate the resource's utility for presurgical planning and comparison with tracer-based neuronal connectivity as proof of concept. Complementing existing structural connectivity resources for the marmoset brain, the Marmoset Functional Brain Connectivity Resource affords users the distinct advantage of exploring the connectivity of any voxel in the marmoset brain, not limited to injection sites nor constrained by regional atlases. With the entire raw database (RS-fMRI and structural images) and preprocessing code openly available for download and use, we expect this resource to be broadly valuable to test novel hypotheses about the functional organization of the marmoset brain.
普通狨猴(Callithrix jacchus)正迅速成为一种重要的神经科学模型。然而,在理解狨猴大脑的功能和结构组织方面,仍需取得相当大的进展,才能与长期使用的临床前模型物种(如小鼠、大鼠和旧世界灵长类动物)所记录的情况相媲美。为了加速这一进展,我们推出了狨猴功能性脑连接资源库(marmosetbrainconnectome.org),目前该资源库包含超过70小时的静息态功能磁共振成像(RS-fMRI)数据,这些数据是在500微米各向同性分辨率下,从31只完全清醒的狨猴身上采集的,处于一个通用的立体定向空间中。每个皮质和皮质下灰质体素的三维功能连接(FC)图谱都存储在网上。用户可以即时查看、操作和下载任何全脑功能连接(FC)拓扑结构(在个体或群体水平)以及原始数据集和预处理代码。重要的是,研究人员可以直接使用这个资源来测试关于FC的假设,无需额外分析,按需生成任何灰质体素的全脑相关性。我们展示了该资源在术前规划中的实用性,并与基于示踪剂的神经元连接进行比较,作为概念验证。作为对狨猴大脑现有结构连接资源的补充,狨猴功能性脑连接资源为用户提供了独特的优势,即可以探索狨猴大脑中任何体素的连接性,不限于注射部位,也不受区域图谱的限制。由于整个原始数据库(RS-fMRI和结构图像)以及预处理代码均可公开下载和使用,我们预计这个资源对于测试关于狨猴大脑功能组织的新假设将具有广泛的价值。