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  • Neuroimaging
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Neuroanatomy

Background:

  • Structural connectome (SC) atlases are generated from in vivo diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data.
  • Network-based analysis methods are adopted for brain connectivity studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a step-by-step protocol for generating high-quality SCs of brain connectivity.
  • To leverage recent advances in dMRI data processing and tractography for improved biological accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing multi-shell dMRI data with constrained spherical deconvolution for enhanced fiber orientation estimation and separation of tissue signals.
  • Implementing anatomically constrained tractography and spherical-deconvolution informed filtering of tractograms to improve tractography accuracy.
  • Employing MRtrix3 software for protocol implementation, with FSL software for specific processing tasks.

Main Results:

  • The protocol enables the generation of high-quality SCs with increased sensitivity to crossing fibers and improved biological accuracy.
  • Intermediate steps can be adapted for related analyses, such as region of interest-based tractography and local white matter property quantification.

Conclusions:

  • The presented protocol offers a standardized method for creating accurate structural connectome maps.
  • The procedure is suitable for users with dMRI and neuroscience expertise and requires 2–13 hours of computational time.