| Case Based Teaching
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| fMRI & DTI in Clinical Practice |
| Organizers: Nicola De Stefano,
M.D., Ph.D., and Micheal D. Phillips, M.D.
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| Skill Level: Intermediate
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| Wednesday, 22 April 2009 |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| OVERVIEW |
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In this two hour interactive course, the first speaker will
provide a broad overview on how to use fMRI and DTI for
clinical assessments of single cases (“What to know to do it
well”). The second speaker will focus on the limitations of
using this approach to make clinical decisions
(“Limitations”). Emphasis will be on how-to perform studies
in the clinical environment, pointing out aspects such as
technical procedures, experimental protocols and patient
cooperation. Quality assurance procedure will be described. |
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
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Upon completion of this
case based session, participants should be able to:
- Describe the main applications of fMRI and DTI on clinical
grounds;
- Describe the technical requirements necessary for
implementing robust, accurate and
repeatable clinical advanced fMRI/DTI studies in patients
with neurological diseases;
- Implement appropriate fMRI/DTI protocols for clinical
assessment of single cases;
- Recognize challenges, limitations and pitfalls of
performing advanced fMRI/DTI
protocols to answer clinical questions in neurological
patients; and
- Implement Quality Assurance procedures necessary to run reliable and
successful fMRI/DTI protocols in clinic.
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