Course Description
This four-hour course will focus on the rapidly evolving fields
of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional MRI (fMRI) and will
highlight the principles and practices of how and why each are
performed. It will focus particularly on the various aspects of
brain connectivity highlighted by each technique, and on methods of
integrating this complementary information.
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Audience Description: This course
is aimed at both new and experienced researchers and clinicians.
Attendees will be a mix of graduate students, postdoctoral students,
clinicians and researchers. Clinicians who may be considering
applications in neurological MRI could greatly benefit from this course.
No prior knowledge of the methodology is required.
It will also appeal to researchers with prior experience in one of these
techniques, who are interested, for example, in extending their
knowledge of structural connectivity mapped via DTI to functional
relationships explored via fMRI, or vice versa.
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Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to: |
Explain how the fMRI data is acquired and processed;
Explain how the
diffusion tensor is acquired, measured and mapped;
Define the terms
structural and functional connectivity;
Describe sources of artifacts, limitations to the data,
and the likely impact of new parallel imaging techniques on fMRI and DTI
data;
Outline the methods available to
combine the complementary information from fMRI and DTI data. |
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Program
The final five minutes of each presentation will be reserved
for questions.
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| Tuesday,
18 May |
| Introduction
to fMRI |
| 07:00 |
fMRI Basics:
Paradigm Design/Analysis |
R. Todd
Constable |
| 07:30 |
fMRI Resting
State Connectivity/Structural Equation Modeling |
Mark J. Lowe |
| Wednesday,
19 May |
| Introduction
to DTI |
| 07:00 |
DTI Basics |
Derek K. Jones |
| 07:30 |
Tractography and
Beyond |
Geoff Parker |
| Thursday,
20 May |
| Artifacts...and
Correction Strategies |
| 07:00 |
DTI |
Christopher A.
Clark |
| 07:30 |
fMRI |
Douglas C. Noll |
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Friday, 21 May
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| Quantitative
Measures/Information Obtained |
| 07:00 |
DTI: b-Values,
Fractional Anisotropy and Other Quantitative Measures |
Peter J. Basser |
| 07:30 |
fMRI/DTI -
Combining Data |
Mark R. Symms |
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