Principles of Neuroimaging B - 2016
Principles of Neuroimaging B, Winter, 2016 - Class Schedule and Syllabus
N.B. First draft 1-6-16
This schedule will change!
Lecture Videos
- Hopefully, we can start recording the class sessions for those who cannot make a few lectures.
Course Reading
Required Reading
- Signal Processing for Neuroscientists by Wim van Drongelen
- This can be found as a PDF on scribd.com, for a small fee of $8.99
Supplemental Reading
- Matlab for Neuroscientists
- Link for download found here for a small fee: http://www.scribd.com/doc/88212458/Matlab-Matlab-for-Neuroscientists
- Cartoon Guide to Statistics
- Link for download found here for a small fee: http://www.scribd.com/doc/148072668/Cartoon-Guide-to-Statistics
- NOTE: if you subscribe for a Scribd account for a day, you can download as many documents as you like for one fee.
Week 1: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Monday 1/4/16
- MRI Contrast. Mark Cohen: Mark Cohen
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is probably the most influential and most flexible 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
Required Readings
- MRI Slides
- These notes by Joseph Hornak are highly professional and complete coverage of MRI.
Suggested Further Reading
- eMRI is another excellent online MRI learning resource
- Erwin Hahn - Spin Echoes: Essential reading for the MRI community
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Wednesday 1/6/16
- MRI Image Formation and fMRI. Mark Cohen: Mark Cohen
Week 2: MRI Techniques
Monday 1/11/16
- Measurement of Blood Flow by MRI. Danny JJ Wang: [1]
Most MRI images in use today are static maps, generally called "structural" images. However, the MRI signal is sensitive to a wide variety of dynamic phenomena. Practitioners typically use the term "functional" to describe images that pick up time-varying signals. The term functional MRI, of course, has been usurped to describe brain activity mapping and, in most cases, refers to BOLD signal effects.
Measurement of blood flow in particular is another window into brain activity. Several methods exist to create signal sensitive to blood flow, or blood flow changes. Some label the blood flow based on relaxation effects (Arterial Spin Labeling - ASL - being one important method) and others measure flow by velocity.
In most cases, MRI is used as a semi quantitative modality. We get accurate spatial metrics but, in general, the image intensities are in arbitrary units. Blood flow is one particular feature that we can measure in native units.
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Wednesday 1/13/16
- More MRI. Mark Cohen: Mark Cohen
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Week 3: tbd
Monday 1/18/16
- MLK School Holiday
Wednesday 1/20/16
- tbd. Speaker: Mark Cohen
Abstract
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Week 4: Positron Emission Tomography
Monday 1/25/16
Positron Emission Tomography. Speaker: Magnus Dahlboun
Handouts distributed in class.
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Wednesday 1/27/16
PET applications. Speaker: Edythe London
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Week 5: tbd
Monday 2/1/16
- Topic. Speaker:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Wednesday 2/3/16
- Topic. Speaker:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Week 6: tbd
Monday 2/8/16
- Topic. Speaker:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Wednesday 2/10/16
- Topic. Speaker:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Week 7: tbd
Monday 2/15/16
- President's Day - School holiday:
Wednesday 2/17/16
- Optical Neuroimaging and Optogenetics. Peyman Golshani:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Week 8: Advanced MRI methods
Monday 2/22/16
- Diffusion MRI. Ben Ellingson:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Wednesday 2/25/16
- Brain Morphometry. Roger Woods:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Week 9: MR Spectroscopy
Monday 2/29/16
- Clinical Spectroscopy. Joseph O'Neill:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Wednesday 3/2/16
- Spectroscopic Methods. Albert Thomas:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Week 10: Multimodal Methods
Monday 3/7/16
- Imaging Genetics. Carrie Bearden:
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading
Wednesday 3/9/16
- Multimodal imaging approaches. Mark Cohen: Mark Cohen
Required Readings - Please complete these readings prior to class.
Suggested Further Reading