Informatics Approaches to Functional MRI Odor Mapping of the Rodent Olfactory Bulb: OdorMapBuilder and OdorMapDB

• Published in: Neuroinformatics (Totowa, N.J.) Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 3 - 18
• Main Authors: Liu, Nian, Xu, Fuqiang, Marenco, Luis, Hyder, Fahmeed, Miller, Perry, Shepherd, Gordon M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Springer Nature B.V 2004
• Subjects: Animals; Brain; Brain Mapping - methods; Databases, Factual - trends; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Information Management - methods; Internet - trends; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Olfactory Bulb - anatomy & histology; Olfactory Bulb - physiology; Rats; Reproducibility of Results; Rodentia; Smell; Smell - physiology; Software - standards

The present study applies informatics tools to aid and extend fMRI analysis of the coding mechanism of neural signals in the rodent olfactory system. Odor stimulation evokes unique spatial patterns of activity in the glomerular layer of the mammalian olfactory bulb (OB). An open-source software prog...