Title
Wanted dead or alive? The tradeoff between in-vivo versus ex-vivo MR brain imaging in the mouse.
Abstract
High-resolution MRI of the mouse brain is gaining prominence in estimating changes in neuroanatomy over time to understand both normal developmental as well as disease processes and mechanisms. These types of experiments, where a change in time is to be captured as accurately as possible using imaging, face multiple experimental design choices. Chief amongst these choices is whether to image ex-vivo, where superior resolution and contrast are available, or in-vivo, where resolution and contrast are lower but the animal can be followed longitudinally. Here we explore this tradeoff by first estimating the sources of variability in anatomical mouse MRI and then, using statistical simulations, provide power analyses of these experiment design choices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3389/fninf.2012.00006
FRONTIERS IN NEUROINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
MRI,longitudinal,anatomy,mouse models,statistics,power analysis
Ex vivo,Neuroscience,Computer science,In vivo,Neuroimaging,Neuroanatomy
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
1662-5196
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.96
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jason P Lerch138831.42
Lisa Gazdzinski2120.96
Jürgen Germann3120.96
John G. Sled4688191.06
R. Mark Henkelman525124.84
Brian J Nieman6343.78