Principles of Neuroimaging B - 2014

Principles of Neuroimaging B, Winter, 2012 - Class Schedule and Syllabus

Main course page for Principles of Neuroimaging (2012-13)

M284A Principles of Neuroimaging A

• Notes for Instructors

Week 3 - Swine flu and MRI

Wednesday 1/22/14

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is probably the most influential and most felxible current means of imaging the human brain. It features a vast number of separable contrast mechanisms, and a near ideal combination of non-invasiveness, safety, resolution and metric accuracy. However, it is extraordinarily expensive and has limited temporal resolution, especially for functional studies

OUTLINE Required Readings

• MRI Slides
• These notes by Joseph Hornak are highly professional and complete coverage of MRI.
• eMRI is another excellent online MRI learning resource
• Erwin Hahn - Spin Echoes: Essential reading for the MRI community

above: Figure 1 from Hahn, 1950

Suggested Further Reading

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Week 4 - Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Monday 1/27/1 - MRI

-MRI I Speaker: Cohen

Required Readings

• MRI Slides

Week 5 MRI and multimodal imaging

Wednesday 2/5/14

Multimodal imaging. Speaker: Cohen

• Multimodal neuroimaging lecture slides

Week 6 Diffusion and PET

Monday 2/10/14

Diffusion imaging. Speaker: Ben Ellingson

Required Readings Slides should be up soon. Suggested Further Reading

• Hageman DTI Slides
• Hageman DTI Notes 2/26/12
• Diffusion tensor imaging of cerebral white matter: a pictorial review of physics, fiber tract anatomy, and tumor imaging patterns AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2004 Mar;25(3):356-69

Sadly, the library does not have a subscription for the journals below (Mark has copies on reserve in his office):

• Microstructural and physiological features of tissues elucidated by quantitative-diffusion-tensor MRI. J Magn Reson B. 1996 Jun;111(3):209-19
• Principles of diffusion tensor imaging and its applications to basic neuroscience research. Neuron. 2006 Sep 7;51(5):527-39

Wednesday 2/12/14

Positron Emission Tomography. Speaker: Magnus Dahlboun

Handouts distributed in class.

Week 8 Transcranial Magnetostimulation and PET applications

Monday 2/24/14

TMS. Speaker: Allan Wu

'Required Readings

• Wu Lecture slides
• TMS Safety and Ethics - Rossi, 2009
• | M Sandrini, C Umilta and E Rusconi, “The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience: a new synthesis of methodological issues.” Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 35(3): p. 516-536. 2011

Suggested Further Reading Once upon a time we demonstrated that this sort of magnetic stimulation can take place in the MRI machines:

• MS Cohen, RM Weisskoff, RR Rzedzian and HL Kantor, “Sensory stimulation by time-varying magnetic fields.” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 14(2): p. 409-414. 1990

Wednesday 2/26/1.

PET applications. Speaker: Edythe London

• Dr. Edythe London PET Slides

Week 9 - Spectroscopy

Wednesday 3/5/14

Spectroscopy. Speaker: Albert Thomas - UCLA Radiology.

Handouts distributed in class

Week 10 - Compressed sensing and finals

Monday 3/10/14

Compressed Sensing. Speaker: Ming Yan - UCLA Applied Mathematics

• Ming Yan's slides on compressive sensing

To access the slides from the course web site listed on his handout, The username is "caame654", and password is "dense".

Suggested Further Reading

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