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The Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) in cooperation with with the cooperation of several of the TCGA GBM tissue-contributing institutions has obtained many archived a large portion of the pre-surgical diagnostic MRIs of the genetically-analyzed cases. That genetic data resides in the http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga. These images with TCGA data portal. These images, using their TCGA identifier tags relating allow researchers to explore the genomic, clinical, and pathological data being stored within the TCGA Data Portal.   Currently this large MR multi-sequence image collection of pre-surgical glioblastoma patients can be matched by each unique case identifier with the extensive gene and expression data of the same case from the Cancer Genome Atlas Data Portal to research the link between clinical phenome and tissue genome.  Over time it is expected to grow in diversity, including other tumor types that are being collected as part of the funded TCGA activitiesThese data sets therefore permit a link between clinical phenotype and tissue genotype. Although the present image archive has for the moment only acquired GBM case images, over time images from new TCGA collections arising from other TCGA studied tumor types will be collected.

These images were also utilized as part of the caBIG TCGA Enterprise Use Case project. This caBIG enterprise use case involves loading the TCGA images stored in NBIA into 3 different workstations that are being developed with annotation and markup capabilities based on Annotation Imaging Markup (AIM). 

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