- Keator, David B;
- van Erp, Theo GM;
- Turner, Jessica A;
- Glover, Gary H;
- Mueller, Bryon A;
- Liu, Thomas T;
- Voyvodic, James T;
- Rasmussen, Jerod;
- Calhoun, Vince D;
- Lee, Hyo Jong;
- Toga, Arthur W;
- McEwen, Sarah;
- Ford, Judith M;
- Mathalon, Daniel H;
- Diaz, Michele;
- O'Leary, Daniel S;
- Jeremy Bockholt, H;
- Gadde, Syam;
- Preda, Adrian;
- Wible, Cynthia G;
- Stern, Hal S;
- Belger, Aysenil;
- McCarthy, Gregory;
- Ozyurt, Burak;
- Potkin, Steven G;
- FBIRN
The Function Biomedical Informatics Research Network (FBIRN) developed methods and tools for conducting multi-scanner functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. Method and tool development were based on two major goals: 1) to assess the major sources of variation in fMRI studies conducted across scanners, including instrumentation, acquisition protocols, challenge tasks, and analysis methods, and 2) to provide a distributed network infrastructure and an associated federated database to host and query large, multi-site, fMRI and clinical data sets. In the process of achieving these goals the FBIRN test bed generated several multi-scanner brain imaging data sets to be shared with the wider scientific community via the BIRN Data Repository (BDR). The FBIRN Phase 1 data set consists of a traveling subject study of 5 healthy subjects, each scanned on 10 different 1.5 to 4 T scanners. The FBIRN Phase 2 and Phase 3 data sets consist of subjects with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder along with healthy comparison subjects scanned at multiple sites. In this paper, we provide concise descriptions of FBIRN's multi-scanner brain imaging data sets and details about the BIRN Data Repository instance of the Human Imaging Database (HID) used to publicly share the data.