| Sunrise
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| Quantitative Neuro-Anatomic and Functional Image Assessment |
| Organizers:
Peter A. Bandettini, Ph.D. and Carlo Pierpaoli, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Skill Level: Advanced |
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| Tuesday, 21 April 2009 -
Friday, 24 April 2009 |
| 07:00 - 08:00 |
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| OVERVIEW |
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This four hour
course will be presented by Ph.D. scientists
covering the fundamental issues involved with
extracting quantitative information from neuro-anatomic
and functional MRI data. Principle topics to be
covered are:
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- Quantitative assessment of white matter
- Group anatomical comparisons
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Calibration of activation-related and resting state fMRI.
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The use of resting-state fMRI data for calibration
of activation-related signal
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| The overall goals of this course are to instruct the
MR physicist, neuroscience researcher, and clinician
on the state of the art in methods for extracting
and comparing quantitative anatomic and functional
information from DTI data, standard anatomical data,
and functional time series data.
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
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Upon completion of this
case based session, participants should be able to:
- Assess the challenges and obstacles involved
with quantitative assessment of anatomic and
functional MRI data;
- Describe the necessary steps to perform group comparisons
of anatomic data;
- List the neuronal, scanner-related, and physiological
factors that influence the fluctuations in fMRI data;
- Explain the neuronal, scanner-related, and physiological
factors that influence the magnitude of the
activation-induced fMRI signal change;
- Describe the methods by which fMRI activation-related
signal may be calibrated; and
- List the methods by which fMRI resting state data can be
filtered such that only neuronally related signal changes
remain.
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