Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI): Structural MRI Methods and Outcome Measures

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Abstract

The Ontario Neurodegenerative Research Initiative (ONDRI) is a 3 years multi-site prospective cohort study that has acquired comprehensive multiple assessment platform data, including 3T structural MRI, from neurodegenerative patients with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, and cerebrovascular disease. This heterogeneous cross-section of patients with complex neurodegenerative and neurovascular pathologies pose significant challenges for standard neuroimaging tools. To effectively quantify regional measures of normal and pathological brain tissue volumes, the ONDRI neuroimaging platform implemented a semi-automated MRI processing pipeline that was able to address many of the challenges resulting from this heterogeneity. The purpose of this paper is to serve as a reference and conceptual overview of the comprehensive neuroimaging pipeline used to generate regional brain tissue volumes and neurovascular marker data that will be made publicly available online.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number847
JournalFrontiers in Neurology
Volume11
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 11 2020

Keywords

  • Alzheimer
  • MRI
  • Parkinson
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • cerebral small vessel disease
  • cerebrovascular disease
  • frontotemporal dementia
  • stroke

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Neurology
  • Neurology

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