Resting-state fMRI in the Human Connectome Project

Stephen M. Smith, Christian F. Beckmann, Jesper Andersson, Edward J. Auerbach, Janine Bijsterbosch, Gwenaëlle Douaud, Eugene Duff, David A. Feinberg, Ludovica Griffanti, Michael P. Harms, Michael Kelly, Timothy Laumann, Karla L. Miller, Steen Moeller, Steve Petersen, Jonathan Power, Gholamreza Salimi-Khorshidi, Abraham Z. Snyder, An T. Vu, Mark W. WoolrichJunqian Xu, Essa Yacoub, Kamil Uǧurbil, David C. Van Essen, Matthew F. Glasser

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Abstract

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rfMRI) allows one to study functional connectivity in the brain by acquiring fMRI data while subjects lie inactive in the MRI scanner, and taking advantage of the fact that functionally related brain regions spontaneously co-activate. rfMRI is one of the two primary data modalities being acquired for the Human Connectome Project (the other being diffusion MRI). A key objective is to generate a detailed in vivo mapping of functional connectivity in a large cohort of healthy adults (over 1000 subjects), and to make these datasets freely available for use by the neuroimaging community. In each subject we acquire a total of 1. h of whole-brain rfMRI data at 3. T, with a spatial resolution of 2. ×. 2. ×. 2. mm and a temporal resolution of 0.7. s, capitalizing on recent developments in slice-accelerated echo-planar imaging. We will also scan a subset of the cohort at higher field strength and resolution. In this paper we outline the work behind, and rationale for, decisions taken regarding the rfMRI data acquisition protocol and pre-processing pipelines, and present some initial results showing data quality and example functional connectivity analyses.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)144-168
Number of pages25
JournalNeuroImage
Volume80
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 15 2013

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