TY - JOUR
T1 - ASL-BIDS, the brain imaging data structure extension for arterial spin labeling
AU - Clement, Patricia
AU - Castellaro, Marco
AU - Okell, Thomas W.
AU - Thomas, David L.
AU - Vandemaele, Pieter
AU - Elgayar, Sara
AU - Oliver-Taylor, Aaron
AU - Kirk, Thomas
AU - Woods, Joseph G.
AU - Vos, Sjoerd B.
AU - Kuijer, Joost P. A.
AU - Achten, Eric
AU - van Osch, Matthias J. P.
AU - Detre, John A.
AU - Lu, Hanzhang
AU - Alsop, David C.
AU - Chappell, Michael A.
AU - Hernandez-Garcia, Luis
AU - BIDS maintainers
AU - Petr, Jan
AU - Mutsaerts, Henk J. M. M.
AU - Appelhoff, Stefan
AU - Blair, Ross
AU - Feingold, Franklin
AU - Gau, Rémi
AU - Markiewicz, Christopher J.
AU - Salo, Taylor
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank all researchers within the ASL and BIDS community who were involved in the developmental process of ASL-BIDS for providing advice and feedback. TO was supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (Grant Number 220204/Z/20/Z). The Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203139/Z/16/Z). DT is supported by the UCL Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre (PR/ylr/18575), UCLH NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, and the Wellcome Trust (Centre award 539208). The BIDS maintainers CM, RB, and FF are supported by the National Institute Of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R24MH117179. HM is supported by the Dutch Heart Foundation (2020T049), the Eurostars-2 joint program with co-funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, provided the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RvO), and by the EU Joint Program for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, provided by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development and Alzheimer Nederland.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - 4-Acetamido-4'-isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic Acid/analogs & derivatives
KW - Brain/diagnostic imaging
KW - Humans
KW - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/standards
KW - Neuroimaging/methods
KW - Reproducibility of Results
KW - Spin Labels
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85137312777
U2 - 10.1038/s41597-022-01615-9
DO - 10.1038/s41597-022-01615-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 36068231
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 9
SP - 543
JO - Scientific data
JF - Scientific data
IS - 1
M1 - 543
ER -