Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

TeraVR empowers precise reconstruction of complete 3-D neuronal morphology in the whole brain

  • Yimin Wang,
  • Qi Li,
  • Lijuan Liu,
  • Zhi Zhou,
  • Zongcai Ruan,
  • Lingsheng Kong,
  • Yaoyao Li,
  • Yun Wang,
  • Ning Zhong,
  • Renjie Chai,
  • Xiangfeng Luo,
  • Yike Guo,
  • Michael Hawrylycz,
  • Qingming Luo,
  • Zhongze Gu,
  • Wei Xie,
  • Hongkui Zeng,
  • Hanchuan Peng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11443-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Reconstructing the full shape of neurons is a major informatics challenge as it requires handling huge whole-brain imaging datasets. Here the authors present an open-source virtual reality annotation system for precise and efficient data production of neuronal shapes reconstructed from whole brains.