JULIDE: a software tool for 3D reconstruction and statistical analysis of autoradiographic mouse brain sections

PLoS One. 2010 Nov 23;5(11):e14094. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014094.

Abstract

In this article we introduce JULIDE, a software toolkit developed to perform the 3D reconstruction, intensity normalization, volume standardization by 3D image registration and voxel-wise statistical analysis of autoradiographs of mouse brain sections. This software tool has been developed in the open-source ITK software framework and is freely available under a GPL license. The article presents the complete image processing chain from raw data acquisition to 3D statistical group analysis. Results of the group comparison in the context of a study on spatial learning are shown as an illustration of the data that can be obtained with this tool.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Autoradiography / methods
  • Brain / anatomy & histology*
  • Brain / physiology
  • Carbon Radioisotopes
  • Deoxyglucose / metabolism
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods*
  • Male
  • Maze Learning / physiology
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Software*

Substances

  • Carbon Radioisotopes
  • Deoxyglucose