Sorry for the late notice: This may be of interest to AVA members; we are running an advanced training course on Brain Voyager (see schedule attached) on July 19th and 20th at the Birmingham University Imaging Centre. Basic knowledge of the software is necessary, as the course will be covering only advanced topics.

Please contact Zoe Kourtzi directly if you are interested.

Zoe Kourtzi, PhD Chair of Brain Imaging Behavioural and Brain Sciences School of Psychology University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT UK

tel: 121 414 8509 fax: 121 414 4897 e-mail: z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk web: http://psg275.bham.ac.uk/cnil/

BrainVoyager QX advanced course

Birmingham, July 19 & 20, 2007

Program

Day 1 Analysis and visualization of structural MRI data

09:00 ­ 10:00 Overview - Tools and methods: Image enhancement, Region Growing, Edge detection, Image matching and averaging 10:00 - 10:45 Demonstration: Contrast, intensity, inhomogeneity

correction,

filtering. Automatic/ semi-automatic segmentation of structural data 10:45 - 11:00 Demonstration: Coregistration/ averaging of structural data 11:00 - 11:15 - Tea break - 11:15 - 12:15 Exercise: Data preprocessing, automatic/ semi-automatic segmentation 12:15 - 13:00 Cortex-based inter-subject alignment

13:00 ­ 14:00 - Lunch break -

14:00 ­ 15:00 Exercise: A) Cortex-based alignment B) Transfer of Broadman areas 15:00 ­ 15:30 Cortical thickness analysis 15:30 ­ 16:30 Exercise: Cortical thickness analysis 16:30 - 16:45 - Tea break - 16:45 ­ 17:15 DTI data analysis and visualization 17:15 ­ 18:15 Exercise: DTI data analysis and visualization

BrainVoyager QX advanced course

Birmingham, July 19 & 20, 2007

Program

Day 2 Analysis of functional MRI data

09:00 ­ 09:30 Overview: Tools and methods, concepts, VTC/MTC, ROI/POI 09:30 ­ 11:00 Multi-subjects/ multi-study statistics in BVQX: Fixed and random effects group analysis (GLM, RFX ANCOVA) 11:00 ­ 11:15 - Tea break - 11:15­ 12:15 Volume-based/ cortex-based single-subject and group ICA 12:15 ­ 12:45 Granger causality mapping 12:45 ­ 13:00 Exercise: Coregistration - fMRI data with structural 3d

data

­ patient data with deformed brains

13:00 ­ 14:00 - Lunch break -

14:00 ­ 15:00 Exercise: A) Volume-based and cortex-based ICAB) RFX ANCOVA, C) GLM analysis on aligned cortices 15:00 ­ 15:30 Mapping: Localizer and follow up data analysis (VOI, MSK, POI) 15:30 ­ 16:30 Demonstration: Mapping visual areas ­ field sign maps as preparation for VOI/ POI data analysis 16:30 ­ 16:45 - Tea break - 16:45 ­ 17:15 Future Tools 1: Combined fMRI/MRI and EEG analysis 17:15 ­ 17:45 Future Tools 2: Simulation of brain processes 17:45 ­ 18:00 Discussion

Dr Peter Thompson, Executive Editor, Perception National Teaching Fellow British Association - Royal Society Millennium Fellow Department of Psychology, University of York, YO10 5DD, UK P.Thompson@psych.york.ac.uk tel: +44 1904 433150 fax +44 1904 433181

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