The Brain Images of Normal Subjects (BRAINS) imagebank is a searchable, living database of images & clinical information across the human lifespan. Image BRAINS Imagebank logo What is BRAINS?an integrated repository project / living imagebankhosted by the University of Edinburghsponsored by the Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) collaboratorscontains data from 808 healthy volunteers15 to 81 years of agefrom 7 projects in 3 centresnew data will be added when availableadditional completed & ongoing studies of normal individuals from 1st to 10th decades are in preparation & will be included as they become available What is the BRAINS imagebank?an anonymised collection of images & associated clinical data collected from 'normal' individuals participating in researchit includes several MR & structural sequences (e.g. T1, T2, T2* & FLAIR) available in DICOM (http://dicom.nema.org/)future addition of DTI plannedimages are linked to a wide range of ‘textual data’ including:agemedical historyphysiological measures (e.g. blood pressure)medication usecognitive abilityperinatal information for pre- / post-natal subjectsthe imagebank can be searched to include or exclude ranges of these variables to create better estimates of ‘what is normal’ at different ages What does BRAINS provide?sharing & archiving of detailed normal human brain imagingsharing & archiving of relevant phenotypic datadata is already collected in studies of healthy volunteers across the life-coursefocus is in particular on extremes of age where variability is largestcurrent emphasis on older agefuture plans to include perinatal imagingfuture plans to include other imaging which is under-represented in existing databanks Useful linksKey publications:Developing an integrated image bank & metadata for large-scale research in cerebrovascular disease: our experience from the stroke image bank project. Frontiers ITC. 2016. doi.org/10.3389/fict.2016.00032A brain imaging repository of normal structural MRI across the life course: Brain Images of Normal Subjects (BRAINS). Neuroimage. 2017 144(B):299-304. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.01.027 Improving data availability for brain image biobanking in healthy subjects: practice-based suggestions from an international multidisciplinary working group. NeuroImage. 2017 153:399-409. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.030Other resources:BRAINS imagebank homepageEdinburgh DataShare for access to BRAINS image data Relevant linksSINAPSEUniversity of EdinburghBrain & nervous system This article was published on 2024-08-22