XNAT-PIC: expanding XNAT to preclinical imaging centers

摘要

Introduction: Preclinical research generates a large amount of diverse biomedical imagery, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Computed Tomography (CT), or Ultrasound (US), with an increasing need of standard tools for managing image data. XNAT is a widely used open-source platform for archiving, accessing and processing medical images [1]. However, tools for importing preclinical images and pipelines for processing large image datasets are not yet available. To overcome these limitations, we have developed several tools in XNAT devoted to Preclinical Imaging Centers (XNAT-PIC).