Principles of Neuroimaging B - 2016

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Principles of Neuroimaging B, Winter, 2016 - Class Schedule and Syllabus

N.B. First draft 1-6-16

This schedule will change!

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Lecture Videos

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Course Reading

Required Reading

Signal Processing for Neuroscientists by Wim van Drongelen
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Supplemental Reading

Matlab for Neuroscientists
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Cartoon Guide to Statistics
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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

Suggested Further Reading

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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

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- 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

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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

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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