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

2 Aug 2019Nature Communicationsvolume 10, Article number: 3474 (2019) 2019 8archive 2025-07-28

Yimin Wang, Qi Li, Li-Juan 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

Neuron morphology is recognized as a key determinant of cell type, yet the quantitative profiling of a mammalian neuron’s complete three-dimensional (3-D) morphology remains arduous when the neuron has complex arborization and long projection. Whole-brain reconstruction of neuron morphology is even more challenging as it involves processing tens of teravoxels of imaging data. Validating such reconstructions is extremely laborious. We develop TeraVR, an open-source virtual reality annotation system, to address these challenges. TeraVR integrates immersive and collaborative 3-D visualization, interaction, and hierarchical streaming of teravoxel-scale images. Using TeraVR, we have produced precise 3-D full morphology of long-projecting neurons in whole mouse brains and developed a collaborative workflow for highly accurate neuronal reconstruction.

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