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<div dir="auto">Hello Amir,</div>
<div dir="auto">I am a postdoc in Robert Zatorre's team.</div>
<div dir="auto">I am interested into joining this work group !</div>
<div dir="auto">Let me know what are the next steps.</div>
<div dir="auto">Thank you and have a nice week.</div>
<div dir="auto">Best,</div>
<div dir="auto">Etienne</div>
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<strong>Envoyé :</strong> dimanche, janvier 12, 2025 10:17:53 PM<br>
<strong>À :</strong> bic-announce@bic.mni.mcgill.ca <bic-announce@bic.mni.mcgill.ca><br>
<strong>Objet :</strong> [BIC-announce] A new initiative: fMRI at sub-mm resolution @ the BIC<br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Good morning, everyone,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The majority of fMRI studies at the BIC use voxels with ~2 mm-long edges.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Using the 7 Tesla scanner, we can image at a sub-millimeter resolution.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">This resolution allows probing the activity in cortical columns and acquiring cortical depth-dependent activity (“laminar” fMRI).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am initiating a study/work/interest group to facilitate high-resolution fMRI at the BIC.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">In the meetings, we will discuss the topics mentioned below and will present relevant papers.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The topics we will discuss include:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">What should we do before starting high-resolution fMRI?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">How to design a high-resolution fMRI paradigm?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Methods and parameters for acquiring high-resolution fMRI data (in collaboration with Ilana)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Methods for denoising and quality control of high-resolution fMRI data</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Methods for analyzing high-resolution functional MRI data
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Strategies to reduce subject movements</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Strategies for motion correction with small fMRI volumes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Methods for aligning small fMRI volumes to the structural images</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">With the support of Dr. Sethu Boopathy from my lab, we will offer commonly used pipelines and custom-made pipelines for items 4 - 9.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">PIs and trainees who are/might be interested: please contact me.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue;">Amir Shmuel</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue;">PI, CFI funded Quebec Centre for High Field (7T) Brain Imaging</span></p>
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