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A multi-site, multi-modal travelling-heads resource for brain MRI harmonisation.

Shaun Warrington, Andrea Torchi, Olivier Mougin, Jon Campbell, Asante Ntata, Martin Craig, Stephania Assimopoulos, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, Karla L Miller, Mark Jenkinson and 2 more

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Article in Scientific data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Shaun WarringtonSir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7198-8162
Andrea TorchiSir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Olivier MouginSir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Physics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Jon CampbellWellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-1655
Asante NtataSir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Martin CraigSir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Stephania AssimopoulosSir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Fidel Alfaro-AlmagroWellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Karla L MillerWellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Mark JenkinsonWellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Paul S MorganSir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Stamatios N SotiropoulosSir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. stamatios.sotiropoulos@nottingham.ac.uk.

Funding

EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council) 101000969EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 101000969Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust (Wellcome) 203139/A/16/ZWellcome Trust (Wellcome) 203139/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite its great potential for studying the living brain, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be often limited by nuisance non-biological factors, such as hardware/software differences between scanners, which can interfere with biological variability. This lack of standardisation or harmonisation between scanners hinders reproducibility and quantifiability of MRI. Towards addressing this challenge, we present one of the most comprehensive MRI harmonisation resources, based on a travelling heads paradigm; healthy volunteers scanned repeatedly across different scanners. The Oxford-Nottingham Harmonisation (ON-Harmony) resource offers data from 20 participants each scanned on six different 3 T MRI scanners from three major vendors (GE/Philips/Siemens) across five imaging sites. Each scanning session includes five imaging modalities (T1w/T2w/dMRI/rfMRI/SWI) with protocols aligned to the UK Biobank, while for about half of the participants five within-scanner repeats are additionally acquired. The 165 multi-modal scanning sessions allow mapping of different pools of variability (biological, between-scanner, within-scanner) for hundreds of MRI-derived measures. We describe the breadth of information contained in the publicly-available data and showcase their reuse potential for evaluating efficacy of harmonisation approaches.

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BrainHeadMagnetic Resonance ImagingHumans

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PMID40216796
PMCPMC11992253

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