The UNC-Wisconsin Rhesus Macaque Neurodevelopment Database: A Structural MRI and DTI Database of Early Postnatal Development

Front Neurosci. 2017 Feb 2:11:29. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00029. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Rhesus macaques are commonly used as a translational animal model in neuroimaging and neurodevelopmental research. In this report, we present longitudinal data from both structural and diffusion MRI images generated on a cohort of 34 typically developing monkeys from 2 weeks to 36 months of age. All images have been manually skull stripped and are being made freely available via an online repository for use by the research community.

Keywords: brain development; computational atlases; diffusion tensor imaging; macaque; magnetic resonance imaging; neuroimaging; non-human primate.