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Parameters for Rabbit Retinal Connectome

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Retinal Connectome RC1 Quicktime ® movies (large files)

↓ DOWNLOAD ... a colorful 3D retinal volume rendering (122 Mb)

↓ DOWNLOAD ... a trip down a bipolar cell axon (35 Mb)

↓ DOWNLOAD ... and page through the entire TEM volume at 1K2 (225 Mb)


Cell numbers for RC1
284 BCs
140 EBCs
124 GBCs
011 RBCs
003 BBCs
279 ACs
167 YACs
009 on sb acs
118 GACs
009 Aii ACs
005 Ai ACs
019 HCs
130 MG
023 UG
018 GCs



Basic histologic parameters
Field diameter size = 250 μm
Nominal section thickness 90 nm (ideal 70 nm)
Stack thickness 35 μm (GCL - IPL - ACL)
Stack sections = 371
TEM magnification 5000x, 2.18 nm/pixel
TEM tile size 8.7 x 8.7 μm
Tiles/mosaic 900-1100 (15% overlap)
Mosaic acquisition time 5 h
Volume acquisition time 133 d
Volume build time 33 d
Raw volume size 16 Tb
Display volume + 2 backups size: 50 Tb


Definitions
A Canonical field is a region containing no less than
three copies of the rarest cell class. This is our ideal volume.

A Canonical tile is a region containing the rarest cell
class and its Voronoi domain.


Synaptic sampling parameters
Sampling Area (mm2) 0.04 mm2 0.01 mm2
BC density 40000/mm2 40000/mm2
BCs sampled 1600 400
Ribbons/BC 15 15
Ribbon synapses 24000 600
Conventional syn/ribbon 2 2
Total synapses 72000 36000
Synapses scored/hr 10 10
Total workdays 900 225
Total work years 3 0.75


Population sampling parameters
Sampling Area (mm2) 0.04 mm2 0.01 mm2
BCs sampled 1600 400
ACs sampled 800 200
GCs sampled 200 50
dACs sampled 100 25


GC sampling parameters
Class Percent Copies 0.04 Copies 0.01
1a 2.8 6 1-2
1b 6 12 3
1c 5.7 11 2-3
2 4.2 8 2
3 12.2 24 6
4 7.7 15 3-4
5 7 14
6 15 30 7
7 5.6 11 3-4
8 12.2 24 6
9 1.4 3 1
10 8.4 17 4
11 6.6 13 3
12 5.2 10 2-3
total GCs 200 50
sACs 32.7 98 27
other dACs 3.9 12 3
Total dACs 3.9 110 30
Total Neurons 310 80

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