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@ARTICLE{Koch:278572,
author = {Koch, Alexandra and Stirnberg, Rüdiger and Estrada,
Santiago and Zeng, Weiyi and Lohner, Valerie and Shahid,
Mohammad and Ehses, Philipp and Pracht, Eberhard D and
Reuter, Martin and Stöcker, Tony and Breteler, Monique M B},
title = {{V}ersatile {MRI} acquisition and processing protocol for
population-based neuroimaging.},
journal = {Nature protocols},
volume = {20},
number = {5},
issn = {1754-2189},
address = {Basingstoke},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00605},
pages = {1223 - 1245},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Neuroimaging has an essential role in studies of brain
health and of cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative
diseases, requiring the availability of versatile magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition and processing
protocols. We designed and developed a multipurpose
high-resolution MRI protocol for large-scale and long-term
population neuroimaging studies that includes structural,
diffusion-weighted and functional MRI modalities. This
modular protocol takes almost 1 h of scan time and is, apart
from a concluding abdominal scan, entirely dedicated to the
brain. The protocol links the acquisition of an extensive
set of MRI contrasts directly to the corresponding fully
automated data processing pipelines and to the required
quality assurance of the MRI data and of the image-derived
phenotypes. Since its successful implementation in the
population-based Rhineland Study (ongoing, currently more
than 11,000 participants, target participant number of
20,000), the proposed MRI protocol has proved suitable for
epidemiological and clinical cross-sectional and
longitudinal studies, including multisite studies. The
approach requires expertise in magnetic resonance image
acquisition, in computer science for the data management and
the execution of processing pipelines, and in brain anatomy
for the quality assessment of the MRI data. The protocol
takes ~1 h of MRI acquisition and ~20 h of data processing
to complete for a single dataset, but parallelization over
multiple datasets using high-performance computing resources
reduces the processing time. By making the protocol, MRI
sequences and pipelines available, we aim to contribute to
better comparability, interoperability and reusability of
large-scale neuroimaging data.},
subtyp = {Review Article},
keywords = {Humans / Magnetic Resonance Imaging: methods /
Neuroimaging: methods / Image Processing, Computer-Assisted:
methods / Brain: diagnostic imaging},
cin = {AG Breteler / AG Stöcker / AG Reuter},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1012001 / I:(DE-2719)1013026 /
I:(DE-2719)1040310},
pnm = {354 - Disease Prevention and Healthy Aging (POF4-354)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-354},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-2719)Rhineland Study-20190321},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:39672917},
doi = {10.1038/s41596-024-01085-w},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/278572},
}