From bruce.pike at mcgill.ca Tue Nov 1 16:21:05 2011 From: bruce.pike at mcgill.ca (G. Bruce Pike, Prof.) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:21:05 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] MUNACA Labour Dispute and MRI Scanning Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I would like to remind you that all of our MRI Technologists and our Receptionist are part of MUNACA and are therefore currently on strike. This has severely affected our ability to conduct MRI exams. Due to strict labour laws, only Andr? Cormier, our Chief Technologist, is permitted to perform scanning during the strike. Similarly, H?l?ne Day is the only person able to handle booking requests (along with her long list of other responsibilities). While Andr? and H?l?ne have worked above and beyond what could be normally expected, for which I am extremely grateful, they can only do so much. I am therefore reminding you all of these difficult circumstances and ask that you keep this in mind when making requests for "special consideration". I realize that all of our studies are being disrupted by this labour dispute and that there are serious consequences to these delays; however, this situation is beyond our control. So, please think twice before requesting special consideration and keep in mind the incredible pressure Andr? and H?l?ne are experiencing. Let's hope this dispute ends soon and that we quickly return to normal operation. Regards, Bruce Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre From caramanos at gmail.com Wed Nov 9 16:09:02 2011 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 16:09:02 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?BIC_Lecture_Series=3A_Fall-2011_Pro?= =?iso-8859-1?q?gram_=28Mon-Nov-14=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C_de_Grandpr=E9_Co?= =?iso-8859-1?q?mmunications_Centre=3A_Magnetic_Resonance_Spectrosc?= =?iso-8859-1?q?opy_--_Dr=2E_Sridar_Narayanan=29?= Message-ID: *BIC Lecture Series: Fall-2011 Program* * Please join us for our sixth lecture of the season, which will be held at 1:00 pm on Monday, November the 14th, at The Neuro's de Grandpr? Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4). This lecture will be given by Dr. Sridar Narayanan, who will give us an introduction to magnetic resonance spectroscopy. * The BIC Lecture Seriesfeatures informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) at The Neuro by experts in the field. These lectures are informative and open to all. The Fall-2011 Program of the BIC Lecture Series (see below) will feature a number of introductory presentations to get you up to speed on some of the basics of magnetic resonance imaging (*MRI*), functional MRI (*fMRI*), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (*MRS*), diffusion tensor imaging (*DTI*), and electroencephalography (*EEG*) and magnetoencephalography (*MEG*) -- as well as how these are used to study the brain and its functions. [Please note that this season's BIC Lectures will be given in conjunction with the new "Human Brain Imaging" graduate-level course (NEUR-570), which is being offered through McGill University's Integrated Program in Neuroscience .] We hope to see there! Zografos Caramanos, Petra Schweinhardt, Amir Shmuel, Sridar Narayanan, and Jennifer Chew (Organizers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2011 Program* * BIC Lectures are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre, MNI.* * For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture Series website .* * * 1) Sep-19: Basics of fMRI Physics -- Dr. Bruce Pike 2) Sep-26: Voxel-Based Morphometry and Surface-Based Morphometry - Dr. Oliver Lyttelton -- *--) Oct 3: No Lecture: Postponed to Nov-14th* *--) Oct 10: No Lecture: Thanksgiving* 3) Oct-17: Diffusion Tensor Imaging -- Dr. Jennifer Campbell 4) Oct-24: EEG-MEG -- Dr. Christophe Grova 5) Oct-31: Neural Basis of fMRI Signals: Common BOLD Responses -- Dr. Amir Shmuel -- *--) Nov-07: No Lecture* * 6) Nov-14: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Dr. Sridar Narayanan * 7) Nov-21: Image Pre-Processing and Related Issues -- Dr. Rick Hoge 8) Nov-28: fMRI Analysis of Evoked Responses -- Dr. Jorge Armony -- 9) Dec-05: Resting-State fMRI and Related Analysis -- Dr. Pierre Bellec -- Zografos Caramanos, M.A. Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 (phone) 514-299-8160; (fax) 514-398-2975 (e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca (website) www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sent through Search engine Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:12:29 +0100 Size: 2250 URL: From caramanos at gmail.com Sun Nov 13 22:47:54 2011 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:47:54 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?=3CREMINDER=3E_BIC_Lecture_Series?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=3A_Fall-2011_Program_=28Mon-Nov-14=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_de_Grandpr=E9_Communications_Centre=3A_Magnetic_Re?= =?iso-8859-1?q?sonance_Spectroscopy_--_Dr=2E_Sridar_Narayanan=29?= Message-ID: *BIC Lecture Series: Fall-2011 Program* * Please join us for our sixth lecture of the season, which will be held at 1:00 pm on Monday, November the 14th, at The Neuro's de Grandpr? Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4). This lecture will be given by Dr. Sridar Narayanan, who will give us an introduction to magnetic resonance spectroscopy. * The BIC Lecture Seriesfeatures informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) at The Neuro by experts in the field. These lectures are informative and open to all. The Fall-2011 Program of the BIC Lecture Series (see below) will feature a number of introductory presentations to get you up to speed on some of the basics of magnetic resonance imaging (*MRI*), functional MRI (*fMRI*), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (*MRS*), diffusion tensor imaging (*DTI*), and electroencephalography (*EEG*) and magnetoencephalography (*MEG*) -- as well as how these are used to study the brain and its functions. [Please note that this season's BIC Lectures will be given in conjunction with the new "Human Brain Imaging" graduate-level course (NEUR-570), which is being offered through McGill University's Integrated Program in Neuroscience .] We hope to see there! Zografos Caramanos, Petra Schweinhardt, Amir Shmuel, Sridar Narayanan, and Jennifer Chew (Organizers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2011 Program* * BIC Lectures are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre, MNI.* * For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture Series website .* * * 1) Sep-19: Basics of fMRI Physics -- Dr. Bruce Pike 2) Sep-26: Voxel-Based Morphometry and Surface-Based Morphometry - Dr. Oliver Lyttelton -- *--) Oct 3: No Lecture: Postponed to Nov-14th* *--) Oct 10: No Lecture: Thanksgiving* 3) Oct-17: Diffusion Tensor Imaging -- Dr. Jennifer Campbell 4) Oct-24: EEG-MEG -- Dr. Christophe Grova 5) Oct-31: Neural Basis of fMRI Signals: Common BOLD Responses -- Dr. Amir Shmuel -- *--) Nov-07: No Lecture* * 6) Nov-14: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Dr. Sridar Narayanan * 7) Nov-21: Image Pre-Processing and Related Issues -- Dr. Rick Hoge 8) Nov-28: fMRI Analysis of Evoked Responses -- Dr. Jorge Armony -- 9) Dec-05: Resting-State fMRI and Related Analysis -- Dr. Pierre Bellec -- Zografos Caramanos, M.A. Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 (phone) 514-299-8160; (fax) 514-398-2975 (e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca (website) www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This lecture will be given by Dr. Rick Hoge, who will give us an introduction to image pre-processing and related issues, particularly as they relate to fMRI. * The BIC Lecture Seriesfeatures informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) at The Neuro by experts in the field. These lectures are informative and open to all. The Fall-2011 Program of the BIC Lecture Series (see below) will feature a number of introductory presentations to get you up to speed on some of the basics of magnetic resonance imaging (*MRI*), functional MRI (*fMRI*), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (*MRS*), diffusion tensor imaging (*DTI*), and electroencephalography (*EEG*) and magnetoencephalography (*MEG*) -- as well as how these are used to study the brain and its functions. [Please note that this season's BIC Lectures will be given in conjunction with the new "Human Brain Imaging" graduate-level course (NEUR-570), which is being offered through McGill University's Integrated Program in Neuroscience .] We hope to see there! Zografos Caramanos, Petra Schweinhardt, Amir Shmuel, Sridar Narayanan, and Jennifer Chew (Organizers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2011 Program* * BIC Lectures are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre, MNI.* * For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture Series website .* * * 1) Sep-19: Basics of fMRI Physics -- Dr. Bruce Pike 2) Sep-26: Voxel-Based Morphometry and Surface-Based Morphometry - Dr. Oliver Lyttelton -- *--) Oct 3: No Lecture: Postponed to Nov-14th* *--) Oct 10: No Lecture: Thanksgiving* 3) Oct-17: Diffusion Tensor Imaging -- Dr. Jennifer Campbell 4) Oct-24: EEG-MEG -- Dr. Christophe Grova 5) Oct-31: Neural Basis of fMRI Signals: Common BOLD Responses -- Dr. Amir Shmuel -- *--) Nov-07: No Lecture* 6) Nov-14: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Dr. Sridar Narayanan *7) Nov-21: Image Pre-Processing and Related Issues -- Dr. Rick Hoge * 8) Nov-28: fMRI Analysis of Evoked Responses -- Dr. Jorge Armony -- 9) Dec-05: Resting-State fMRI and Related Analysis -- Dr. Pierre Bellec -- Zografos Caramanos, M.A. Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 (phone) 514-299-8160; (fax) 514-398-2975 (e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca (website) www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4). > > This lecture will be given by Dr. Rick Hoge, who will give us an introduction to image pre-processing and related issues, particularly as they relate to fMRI. > > The BIC Lecture Series features informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) at The Neuro by experts in the field. These lectures are informative and open to all. > > The Fall-2011 Program of the BIC Lecture Series (see below) will feature a number of introductory presentations to get you up to speed on some of the basics of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI (fMRI), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) -- as well as how these are used to study the brain and its functions. [Please note that this season's BIC Lectures will be given in conjunction with the new "Human Brain Imaging" graduate-level course (NEUR-570), which is being offered through McGill University's Integrated Program in Neuroscience.] > > We hope to see there! > Zografos Caramanos, Petra Schweinhardt, Amir Shmuel, Sridar Narayanan, and Jennifer Chew (Organizers) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2011 Program > BIC Lectures are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre, MNI. > For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture Series website. > > 1) Sep-19: Basics of fMRI Physics -- Dr. Bruce Pike > 2) Sep-26: Voxel-Based Morphometry and Surface-Based Morphometry - Dr. Oliver Lyttelton > -- > --) Oct 3: No Lecture: Postponed to Nov-14th > --) Oct 10: No Lecture: Thanksgiving > 3) Oct-17: Diffusion Tensor Imaging -- Dr. Jennifer Campbell > 4) Oct-24: EEG-MEG -- Dr. Christophe Grova > 5) Oct-31: Neural Basis of fMRI Signals: Common BOLD Responses -- Dr. Amir Shmuel > -- > --) Nov-07: No Lecture > 6) Nov-14: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Dr. Sridar Narayanan > 7) Nov-21: Image Pre-Processing and Related Issues -- Dr. Rick Hoge > 8) Nov-28: fMRI Analysis of Evoked Responses -- Dr. Jorge Armony > -- > 9) Dec-05: Resting-State fMRI and Related Analysis -- Dr. Pierre Bellec > > > > > -- > Zografos Caramanos, M.A. > > Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit > Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience > > McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, > Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University > 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 > (phone) 514-299-8160; (fax) 514-398-2975 > (e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca > (website) www.zcaramanos.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Mon Nov 21 12:48:39 2011 From: christophe.grova at mcgill.ca (Christophe Grova) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:48:39 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] New course now available : BMDE610 - Functional neuroimaging fusion - Registration is open Message-ID: <491213D5D60C4587809706D8287E0294@christope2283c> Dear all, Just a friendly reminder that the new course I propose is open for registration. There was a small technical problem that was blocking some registrations, it should be solved now. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions (regarding prerequisites notably) or problem to register. I am happy to announce you that a new graduate course BMDE610, entitled Functional neuroimaging fusion will be offered in Winter 2012 in Biomedical Engineering Dpt Most of the lectures will be done by myself + few invited lecturers. http://www.mcgill.ca/global/php/coursepopup.php?Course=BMDE%20610 Registration is now open on Minerva, places are limited so register ASAP! Prerequesites are ECSE 305 and MATH 223, or equivalent to be discussed with myself. The main prerequesites actually consist in basic notions of Probablity and Linear Algebra. Course description: BMDE610: Biomedical engineering: Multimodal data fusion of electrophysiology and functional neuroimaging data, including: detailed description of source localization methods for Electro- and MagnetoEncephaloGraphy data, analysis of brain hemodynamic activity through simultaneous recordings with electrophysiology, analysis and reconstruction of Near Infra-RedSpectroscopydata, modelling of the neurovascular coupling, validation methodology. Objectives of the course The main objectives of this new course BMED 610 is to address specific issues related to data fusion of functional neuroimaging data. In this context, we will define "multimodal fusion" as the use of more than one modality to analyze functional neuroimaging data. For instance, fusion could be considered when anatomical information extracted from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data is used as prior information to guide source localization of Electro- or Magneto-EncephaloGraphy (EEG vs MEG) data. Data fusion will also be considered when EEG markers are used to analyse functional MRI data, when studying for instance the hemodynamic response to spontaneous epileptic discharges detected on scalp EEG. The objectives of the course are to introduce methods necessary to address the difficult problem of functional neuroimaging data fusion. The first part of the course will be dedicated to a detailed presentation of methods for which source localization has to be inferred from data acquired on the scalp: (1) in electrophysiology when using EEG or MEG, and (2) for hemodynamic activity when using Near Infra Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) data. The second part of the course will concern the link between bioelectrical activity and hemodynamic processes, the so-called neurovascular coupling. Applications for which simultaneous recordings of more than one modality are required will be presented, as well as related technical and methodological difficulties. The course will end with a state of the art of the models proposed to characterize the neurovascular coupling. After completing this course, the students will be able to perform source localization from EEG and MEG data, which is far from trivial for most available softwares. They will also acquire sufficient knowledge to start analyzing hemodynamic data (fMRI, NIRS) and to studying the neurovascular coupling. Evaluation of the course: - 30%: Mid-term exam: theoretical questions related to the course (1h). - 70%: Final project: detailed analysis of an article or a particular application of neuroimaging data fusion, with specific emphasis on validation methodology. This project will consist in a report (35%) and will be followed by a 15min oral presentation (35%) during the last sessions of the course. The objective of the project is to present, in details, the added value of using data fusion in a specific application context. Preliminary syllabus Week 1: Basis of electrophysiology (EEG, MEG) and hemodynamic signals (fMRI, NIRS) Week 2: Forward model in EEG/MEG and in NIRS modelling Week 3: Validation methodology in neuroimaging Week 4: Source localization: equivalent current dipole and dipole scanning approaches Week 5: Source localization: distributed models and Bayesian approaches Week 6: Source localization: hierarchical Bayesian models, entropic framework Week 7: Source localization: time-frequency based source localization Week 8: Simultaneous EEG/fMRI: acquisition, analysis, and interpretation Week 9: Multimodal fusion and neurovascular coupling modelling Week 10: NIRS : data acquisition, data analysis and inverse problem Weeks 11-12: oral presentations of the final projects Feel free to contact me if you need more information Christophe Grova *************************** Christophe Grova, PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Dpt Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en Math?matiques Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304 McGill University 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca tel : (514) 398 2516 fax : (514) 398 7461 web: http://apps.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/members/christophe.html http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From caramanos at gmail.com Fri Nov 25 00:50:36 2011 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:50:36 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?BIC_Lecture_Series=3A_Fall-2011_Pro?= =?iso-8859-1?q?gram_=28Mon-Nov-28=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C_de_Grandpr=E9_Co?= =?iso-8859-1?q?mmunications_Centre=3A_fMRI_Analysis_of_Evoked_Resp?= =?iso-8859-1?q?onses_--_Dr=2E_Jorge_Armony=29?= Message-ID: *BIC Lecture Series: Fall-2011 Program* * Please join us for our eighth lecture of the season, which will be held at 1:00 pm on Monday, November the 28th, at The Neuro's de Grandpr? Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4). This lecture will be given by Dr. Jorge Armony, who will give us an introduction to the analysis of evoked responses on fMRI. * The BIC Lecture Seriesfeatures informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) at The Neuro by experts in the field. These lectures are informative and open to all. The Fall-2011 Program of the BIC Lecture Series (see below) will feature a number of introductory presentations to get you up to speed on some of the basics of magnetic resonance imaging (*MRI*), functional MRI (*fMRI*), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (*MRS*), diffusion tensor imaging (*DTI*), and electroencephalography (*EEG*) and magnetoencephalography (*MEG*) -- as well as how these are used to study the brain and its functions. [Please note that this season's BIC Lectures will be given in conjunction with the new "Human Brain Imaging" graduate-level course (NEUR-570), which is being offered through McGill University's Integrated Program in Neuroscience .] We hope to see there! Zografos Caramanos, Petra Schweinhardt, Amir Shmuel, Sridar Narayanan, and Jennifer Chew (Organizers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2011 Program* * BIC Lectures are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre, MNI.* * For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture Series website .* * * 1) Sep-19: Basics of fMRI Physics -- Dr. Bruce Pike 2) Sep-26: Voxel-Based Morphometry and Surface-Based Morphometry - Dr. Oliver Lyttelton -- *--) Oct 3: No Lecture: Postponed to Nov-14th* *--) Oct 10: No Lecture: Thanksgiving* 3) Oct-17: Diffusion Tensor Imaging -- Dr. Jennifer Campbell 4) Oct-24: EEG-MEG -- Dr. Christophe Grova 5) Oct-31: Neural Basis of fMRI Signals: Common BOLD Responses -- Dr. Amir Shmuel -- *--) Nov-07: No Lecture* 6) Nov-14: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Dr. Sridar Narayanan 7) Nov-21: Image Pre-Processing and Related Issues -- Dr. Rick Hoge *8) Nov-28: fMRI Analysis of Evoked Responses -- Dr. Jorge Armony * * * -- 9) Dec-05: Resting-State fMRI and Related Analysis -- Dr. Pierre Bellec -- Zografos Caramanos, M.A. Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 (phone) 514-299-8160; (fax) 514-398-2975 (e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca (website) www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Fri Nov 25 13:56:29 2011 From: christophe.grova at mcgill.ca (Christophe Grova) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:56:29 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Wednesday November 30th at 13h Message-ID: <495D3C04BA0F445584B3556AB8B20916@christope2283c> Dear all, Our next Biomedical Engineering Dpt seminar is next wednesday Wednesday - November 30th, at 13h Location: Room 333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt). Speaker: Dr. Mathieu Dehaes, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School & Children?s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA Title: Potential of Bedside CMRO2 to Assess and Monitor Neonatal Brain Health Abstract: Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) remains a common cause of infant morbidity, occurring in 6 per 1,000 live births per year, which represents more than 26,000 cases. As for HIE, brain injury in premature infants is an important public health problem (> 63,000 born with a very low birth weight) because of the large number of infants who survive with neurodevelopmental outcomes including major cognitive deficits and serious motor disabilities. Currently, brain health monitoring for acute hypoxic ischemic brain injury is performed with bedside continuous wave near infrared spectroscopy (CWNIRS) measures of frontal brain relative tissue oxygen saturation (rStO2). These rStO2 measures are used to guide treatment decisions as individualized car for undergoing a hypothermia treatment. Although oxygen is the primary fuel for neurons, rStO2 does not reflect the amount of oxygen consumed by neurons, and is affected by multiple non-neuronal factors such as blood flow and hematocrit. In this presentation, we will show that StO2 is insensitive to brain growth in normal preterm and term children, and is insensitive to acute hypoxic ischemic brain injury in neonates. Also, we will demonstrate that the use of bedside frequency domain NIRS (FDNIRS) combined with diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) provide direct measures of neuronal health by providing absolute measures of neuronal cerebral oxygen consumption (CMRO2). We will show the potential of bedside FDNIRS-DCS measures of CMRO2 to assess preoperative brain health and monitor for postoperative hypoxic ischemic brain injury in neonates who underwent an open-heart surgery for congenital heart disease. Our goal is to establish bedside FDNIRS-DCS as a safe and informative bedside tool for assessing and monitoring brain health in neonates with hypoxic ischemic insults and then improve neurodevelopmental outcomes. A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : http://www.bme.mcgill.ca/seminars.html See you there Christophe Grova *************************** Christophe Grova, PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Dpt Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en Math?matiques Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304 McGill University 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca tel : (514) 398 2516 fax : (514) 398 7461 web: http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/members/christophe.html http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caramanos at gmail.com Mon Nov 28 01:24:10 2011 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:24:10 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?=3CREMINDER=3E_BIC_Lecture_Series?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=3A_Fall-2011_Program_=28Mon-Nov-28=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_de_Grandpr=E9_Communications_Centre=3A_fMRI_Analys?= =?iso-8859-1?q?is_of_Evoked_Responses_--_Dr=2E_Jorge_Armony=29?= Message-ID: *BIC Lecture Series: Fall-2011 Program* * Please join us for our eighth lecture of the season, which will be held at 1:00 pm on Monday, November the 28th, at The Neuro's de Grandpr? Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4). This lecture will be given by Dr. Jorge Armony, who will give us an introduction to the analysis of evoked responses on fMRI. * The BIC Lecture Seriesfeatures informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) at The Neuro by experts in the field. These lectures are informative and open to all. The Fall-2011 Program of the BIC Lecture Series (see below) will feature a number of introductory presentations to get you up to speed on some of the basics of magnetic resonance imaging (*MRI*), functional MRI (*fMRI*), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (*MRS*), diffusion tensor imaging (*DTI*), and electroencephalography (*EEG*) and magnetoencephalography (*MEG*) -- as well as how these are used to study the brain and its functions. [Please note that this season's BIC Lectures will be given in conjunction with the new "Human Brain Imaging" graduate-level course (NEUR-570), which is being offered through McGill University's Integrated Program in Neuroscience .] We hope to see there! Zografos Caramanos, Petra Schweinhardt, Amir Shmuel, Sridar Narayanan, and Jennifer Chew (Organizers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2011 Program* * BIC Lectures are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre, MNI.* * For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture Series website .* * * 1) Sep-19: Basics of fMRI Physics -- Dr. Bruce Pike 2) Sep-26: Voxel-Based Morphometry and Surface-Based Morphometry - Dr. Oliver Lyttelton -- *--) Oct 3: No Lecture: Postponed to Nov-14th* *--) Oct 10: No Lecture: Thanksgiving* 3) Oct-17: Diffusion Tensor Imaging -- Dr. Jennifer Campbell 4) Oct-24: EEG-MEG -- Dr. Christophe Grova 5) Oct-31: Neural Basis of fMRI Signals: Common BOLD Responses -- Dr. Amir Shmuel -- *--) Nov-07: No Lecture* 6) Nov-14: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Dr. Sridar Narayanan 7) Nov-21: Image Pre-Processing and Related Issues -- Dr. Rick Hoge *8) Nov-28: fMRI Analysis of Evoked Responses -- Dr. Jorge Armony * * * -- 9) Dec-05: Resting-State fMRI and Related Analysis -- Dr. Pierre Bellec -- Zografos Caramanos, M.A. Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 (phone) 514-299-8160; (fax) 514-398-2975 (e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca (website) www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Mon Nov 28 10:55:57 2011 From: christophe.grova at mcgill.ca (Christophe Grova) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:55:57 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - WednesdayNovember 30th at 13h Message-ID: <1281B483A6D844BC98C2380DA89475B6@christope2283c> Dear all, Our next Biomedical Engineering Dpt seminar is next wednesday Wednesday - November 30th, at 13h Location: Room 333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt). Speaker: Dr. Mathieu Dehaes, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School & Children?s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA Title: Potential of Bedside CMRO2 to Assess and Monitor Neonatal Brain Health Abstract: Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) remains a common cause of infant morbidity, occurring in 6 per 1,000 live births per year, which represents more than 26,000 cases. As for HIE, brain injury in premature infants is an important public health problem (> 63,000 born with a very low birth weight) because of the large number of infants who survive with neurodevelopmental outcomes including major cognitive deficits and serious motor disabilities. Currently, brain health monitoring for acute hypoxic ischemic brain injury is performed with bedside continuous wave near infrared spectroscopy (CWNIRS) measures of frontal brain relative tissue oxygen saturation (rStO2). These rStO2 measures are used to guide treatment decisions as individualized car for undergoing a hypothermia treatment. Although oxygen is the primary fuel for neurons, rStO2 does not reflect the amount of oxygen consumed by neurons, and is affected by multiple non-neuronal factors such as blood flow and hematocrit. In this presentation, we will show that StO2 is insensitive to brain growth in normal preterm and term children, and is insensitive to acute hypoxic ischemic brain injury in neonates. Also, we will demonstrate that the use of bedside frequency domain NIRS (FDNIRS) combined with diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) provide direct measures of neuronal health by providing absolute measures of neuronal cerebral oxygen consumption (CMRO2). We will show the potential of bedside FDNIRS-DCS measures of CMRO2 to assess preoperative brain health and monitor for postoperative hypoxic ischemic brain injury in neonates who underwent an open-heart surgery for congenital heart disease. Our goal is to establish bedside FDNIRS-DCS as a safe and informative bedside tool for assessing and monitoring brain health in neonates with hypoxic ischemic insults and then improve neurodevelopmental outcomes. A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : http://www.bme.mcgill.ca/seminars.html See you there Christophe Grova *************************** Christophe Grova, PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Dpt Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en Math?matiques Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304 McGill University 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca tel : (514) 398 2516 fax : (514) 398 7461 web: http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/members/christophe.html http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vincent.gracco at mcgill.ca Tue Nov 29 21:00:35 2011 From: vincent.gracco at mcgill.ca (VIncent Gracco) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:00:35 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] CRBLM Distinguished Lecture Series--Friday Dec 2 Message-ID: <62F4481F-D944-4A0C-B61E-E2AB7A7AD456@mcgill.ca> Dr. John Foxe, Research Director of the Children?s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC) and Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience at Einstein University, and director of the Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research will give a CRBLM Distinguished Lecture entitled "Severe multisensory speech integration deficits in high functioning children with Autism" this Friday, Dec. 2 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm in Room 501 of the Goodman Cancer Research Centre, 1160 Avenue des Pins Ouest. The abstract for the talk can be found at http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/events/item/?item_id=212161 Vincent L. Gracco, PhD Director, Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music McGill University 3640 de la Montagne Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2A8 Telephone: 514-398-7298 Email: vincent.gracco at mcgill.ca http://www.crblm.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Wed Nov 30 08:23:05 2011 From: christophe.grova at mcgill.ca (Christophe Grova) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:23:05 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - WednesdayNovember 30th at 13h Message-ID: Dear all, Our next Biomedical Engineering Dpt seminar is today Wednesday - November 30th, at 13h Location: Room 333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt). Speaker: Dr. Mathieu Dehaes, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School & Children?s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA Title: Potential of Bedside CMRO2 to Assess and Monitor Neonatal Brain Health Abstract: Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) remains a common cause of infant morbidity, occurring in 6 per 1,000 live births per year, which represents more than 26,000 cases. As for HIE, brain injury in premature infants is an important public health problem (> 63,000 born with a very low birth weight) because of the large number of infants who survive with neurodevelopmental outcomes including major cognitive deficits and serious motor disabilities. Currently, brain health monitoring for acute hypoxic ischemic brain injury is performed with bedside continuous wave near infrared spectroscopy (CWNIRS) measures of frontal brain relative tissue oxygen saturation (rStO2). These rStO2 measures are used to guide treatment decisions as individualized car for undergoing a hypothermia treatment. Although oxygen is the primary fuel for neurons, rStO2 does not reflect the amount of oxygen consumed by neurons, and is affected by multiple non-neuronal factors such as blood flow and hematocrit. In this presentation, we will show that StO2 is insensitive to brain growth in normal preterm and term children, and is insensitive to acute hypoxic ischemic brain injury in neonates. Also, we will demonstrate that the use of bedside frequency domain NIRS (FDNIRS) combined with diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) provide direct measures of neuronal health by providing absolute measures of neuronal cerebral oxygen consumption (CMRO2). We will show the potential of bedside FDNIRS-DCS measures of CMRO2 to assess preoperative brain health and monitor for postoperative hypoxic ischemic brain injury in neonates who underwent an open-heart surgery for congenital heart disease. Our goal is to establish bedside FDNIRS-DCS as a safe and informative bedside tool for assessing and monitoring brain health in neonates with hypoxic ischemic insults and then improve neurodevelopmental outcomes. A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : http://www.bme.mcgill.ca/seminars.html See you there Christophe Grova *************************** Christophe Grova, PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Dpt Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en Math?matiques Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304 McGill University 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca tel : (514) 398 2516 fax : (514) 398 7461 web: http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/members/christophe.html http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caramanos at gmail.com Wed Nov 30 18:11:31 2011 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:11:31 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?BIC_Lecture_Series=3A_Fall-2011_Pro?= =?iso-8859-1?q?gram_=28Mon-Dec-5=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C_de_Grandpr=E9_Com?= =?iso-8859-1?q?munications_Centre=3A_Resting-State_fMRI_and_Relate?= =?iso-8859-1?q?d_Analysis_--_Dr=2E_Pierre_Bellec=29?= Message-ID: *BIC Lecture Series: Fall-2011 Program* * Please join us for our final lecture of the season, which will be held at 1:00 pm on Monday, December the 5th, at The Neuro's de Grandpr? Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4). This lecture will be given by Dr. Pierre Bellec, who will give us an introduction to resting-state fMRI and its analysis. * The BIC Lecture Seriesfeatures informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) at The Neuro by experts in the field. These lectures are informative and open to all. The Fall-2011 Program of the BIC Lecture Series (see below) will feature a number of introductory presentations to get you up to speed on some of the basics of magnetic resonance imaging (*MRI*), functional MRI (*fMRI*), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (*MRS*), diffusion tensor imaging (*DTI*), and electroencephalography (*EEG*) and magnetoencephalography (*MEG*) -- as well as how these are used to study the brain and its functions. [Please note that this season's BIC Lectures will be given in conjunction with the new "Human Brain Imaging" graduate-level course (NEUR-570), which is being offered through McGill University's Integrated Program in Neuroscience .] We hope to see there! Zografos Caramanos, Petra Schweinhardt, Amir Shmuel, Sridar Narayanan, and Jennifer Chew (Organizers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2011 Program* * BIC Lectures are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre, MNI.* * For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture Series website .* * * 1) Sep-19: Basics of fMRI Physics -- Dr. Bruce Pike 2) Sep-26: Voxel-Based Morphometry and Surface-Based Morphometry - Dr. Oliver Lyttelton -- *--) Oct 3: No Lecture: Postponed to Nov-14th* *--) Oct 10: No Lecture: Thanksgiving* 3) Oct-17: Diffusion Tensor Imaging -- Dr. Jennifer Campbell 4) Oct-24: EEG-MEG -- Dr. Christophe Grova 5) Oct-31: Neural Basis of fMRI Signals: Common BOLD Responses -- Dr. Amir Shmuel -- *--) Nov-07: No Lecture* 6) Nov-14: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Dr. Sridar Narayanan 7) Nov-21: Image Pre-Processing and Related Issues -- Dr. Rick Hoge 8) Nov-28: fMRI Analysis of Evoked Responses -- Dr. Jorge Armony -- * 9) Dec-05: Resting-State fMRI and Related Analysis -- Dr. Pierre Bellec * -- Zografos Caramanos, M.A. Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 (phone) 514-299-8160; (fax) 514-398-2975 (e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca (website) www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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