Littlejohns, TJ, Holliday, J, Gibson, LM et al. (21 more authors) (2020) The UK Biobank imaging enhancement of 100,000 participants: rationale, data collection, management and future directions. Nature Communications, 11 (1). 2624. ISSN 2041-1723
Abstract
UK Biobank is a population-based cohort of half a million participants aged 40–69 years recruited between 2006 and 2010. In 2014, UK Biobank started the world’s largest multi-modal imaging study, with the aim of re-inviting 100,000 participants to undergo brain, cardiac and abdominal magnetic resonance imaging, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and carotid ultrasound. The combination of large-scale multi-modal imaging with extensive phenotypic and genetic data offers an unprecedented resource for scientists to conduct health-related research. This article provides an in-depth overview of the imaging enhancement, including the data collected, how it is managed and processed, and future directions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2020 11:52 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2020 11:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Nature Research |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/s41467-020-15948-9 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:162590 |