ASL-BIDS, the brain imaging data structure extension for arterial spin labeling
Scientific Data, vol. 9, pp. 543
Abstract
Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a non-invasive MRI technique that allows for quantitative measurement of cerebral perfusion. Incomplete or inaccurate reporting of acquisition parameters complicates quantification, analysis, and sharing of ASL data, particularly for studies across multiple sites, platforms, and ASL methods. There is a strong need for standardization of ASL data storage, including acquisition metadata. Recently, ASL-BIDS, the BIDS extension for ASL, was developed and released in BIDS 1.5.0. This manuscript provides an overview of the development and design choices of this first ASL-BIDS extension, which is mainly aimed at clinical ASL applications. Discussed are the structure of the ASL data, focussing on storage order of the ASL time series and implementation of calibration approaches, unit scaling, ASL-related BIDS fields, and storage of the labeling plane information. Additionally, an overview of ASL-BIDS compatible conversion and ASL analysis software and ASL example datasets in BIDS format is provided. We anticipate that large-scale adoption of ASL-BIDS will improve the reproducibility of ASL research.
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Patricia Clement corresponding
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Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. patricia.clement@ugent.be
Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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University of Oxford · Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging
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Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Division, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology · University College London
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Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, UK
Neuroradiological Academic Unit, Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, UK
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Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Faculty of computers and information science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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Gold Standard Phantoms, London, UK
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University of Nottingham · University of Oxford
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Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Center, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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University of California San Diego · University of Oxford · Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging
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Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Division, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology · University College London
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Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, London, UK
Neuroradiological Academic Unit, Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, UK
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Amsterdam Neuroscience · Amsterdam University Medical Centers
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Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Matthias J.P. van Osch Aachen C.J. Gorter MRI Center Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden University Medical Center
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C.J. Gorter MRI Center, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Max Planck Institute for Human Development · Stanford University
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Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin, Berlin, 14195, Germany
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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UCLouvain · Stanford University
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Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
Institute of psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la neuve, MD, Belgium
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UCLouvain · Stanford University
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Institute of psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la neuve, MD, Belgium
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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University of Pennsylvania · Stanford University
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Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3451 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3451 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Johns Hopkins University · Johns Hopkins Medicine · University of Pennsylvania
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Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Harvard University · Johns Hopkins University · Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Harvard University · University of Nottingham · Queen's Medical Centre · Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre
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Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Radiological Sciences, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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University of Nottingham · University of Michigan · University of Oxford · Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging · Queen's Medical Centre · Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre
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Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Radiological Sciences, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Center, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Division, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Functional MRI Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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University of Michigan · Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
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Functional MRI Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Dresden, Germany
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf · Ghent University · Amsterdam Neuroscience · Amsterdam University Medical Centers
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Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Dresden, Germany
Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Ghent University · Amsterdam Neuroscience · Amsterdam University Medical Centers
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Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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