| Weekend Educational Course:
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Diffusion Tensor MRI for the Clinician and the Neuroscientist:
From Experimental Design to Data Analysis |
| Organizer: Carlo Pierpaoli,
M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Skill Level:
Intermediate |
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| Saturday, 18 April 2009 |
| 14:00 - 18:00 |
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| OVERVIEW |
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This half day course is
designed for scientists and clinicians starting to work
in the field of diffusion tensor MRI who would like to
have a roadmap for setting up their studies and
interpreting their results. The first half of the course
will cover the fundamentals of diffusion imaging
acquisition, experimental design, data analysis, and
clinical applications, with a lot of practical tips from
experts in the field. The second part of the course will
be dedicated to providing a comparative review of
existing software packages for DT-MRI processing and
analysis, and will include short presentations by their
authors. A panel discussion will close the course.
Participants should expect to improve their ability to
design and carry out DT-MRI clinical studies and better
describe potential artifacts and confounds. |
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
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Upon completion of this
case based session, participants should be able to:
- Decide what diffusion weighted imaging sequence
is most appropriate for their studies;
- Define an optimized experimental protocol for
diffusion tensor MRI (DTI) given the time limit of
their clinical scanning session;
- Describe the various steps involved in a DTI
processing pipeline;
- Appraise the advantages and potential pitfalls
of various DTI analysis strategies;
- Being able to formulate biological
interpretation of diffusion findings; and
- Recognize software packages for DTI data
processing and analysis that would be useful in
their research
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