[BIC-announce] NEUR 570: Intro to Brain Imaging

[Amir Shmuel, Dr.]

Hello all,

We would like to announce the course we'll be giving during the coming fall semester.
NEUR 570, 'Human Brain Imaging', is an introductory course on modern brain imaging methods.
The tentative schedule and topics the course will cover are enclosed below.
Students from McGill as well as from other universities are encouraged to join us.

For inquiries, please email petra.schweinhardt at mcgill.ca<mailto:petra.schweinhardt at mcgill.ca>, sridar.narayanan at mcgill.ca<mailto:sridar.narayanan at mcgill.ca> or amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca<mailto:amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca>.

Sridar Narayanan
Petra Schweinhardt
Amir Shmuel

Topic

Format

Lecturer

Date

Course overview and introduction/ Introduction to the Brain



Amir

Thu Sept 5

Introduction to Brain Imaging

Lecture

Petra/Sridar

Mo Sept 9

The Basics of MRI and fMRI Physics (I)

Lecture

Sridar

Thu Sept 12

The Basics of MRI and fMRI Physics (II)

Lecture

Sridar

Mo Sept 16

A Non-Mathematical Introduction to K-Space

Lecture

Robert

Thu Sept 19

Structural Image Pre-processing

Lecture

Kunio

Mo Sept 23

Stereotaxic Space,  Image Registration, and Image Segmentation

Lecture

Hassan Rivaz

Thu Sept 26

Voxel Based Morphometry, Deformation Based Morphometry (or CTA?)

Lecture

Hassan Rivaz

Mo Sept 30

TBD

Paper discussion I



Thu Oct 3

Diffusion Tensor Imaging I

Lecture

Jennifer Campbell

Mo Oct 7

Diffusion Tensor Imaging II

Lecture

Jennifer Campbell

Thu Oct 10

Thanksgiving

No class



Oct 14

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Lecture

Sridar

Thu Oct 17

Mid-term





Mo Oct 21

EEG

Lecture

Grova

Thu Oct 24

MEG

Lecture

Grova

Mo Oct 28

TBD

Paper discussion II



Thu Oct 31

fMRI Experimental Design

Lecture

Petra

Mo Nov 4

fMRI Experimental Design in practice

Practical session

Petra

Thu Nov 7

FMR Image Pre-Processing and Related Issues

Lecture

Rick Hoge

Mo Nov 11

TBD

Paper discussion III



Thu Nov 14

Neural basis of fMRI (I)

Lecture

Amir

Mo Nov 18

Neural basis of fMRI (II)

Lecture

Amir

Thu Nov 21

fMRI Analysis of evoked responses

Lecture

Jorge Armony

Mo Nov 25

TBD

Paper discussion VI



Thu Nov 28

Resting state fMRI and related analysis

Lecture

Pierre Bellec

Mon Dec 2

Final exam

Should be between Dec 5 and 18.



Thu Dec 12











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