fMRI Visiting Fellowship Program: Sample Schedule
(adapted from the schedule for March 22-26, 2015)
MONDAY |
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| 8:00am -9:45am | Overview of the Program and fMRI-Based Experimentation | Robert Savoy |
| 10:00am -12:30pm | Basics of NMR and MRI: Sources of Signal and Contrast; Imaging and Image Contrast Tradeoffs in Functional MRI; Safety; IRB Issues | Robert Savoy |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm | Data Analysis Part 1: Block Design; t-Tests; Multiple Regreasion; the General Linear Model (GLM) | Robert Savoy |
| 2:45pm - 3:15pm | A Few Experiments in Detail | Robert Savoy |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Class Introductions; Start of the Design Workshop | Robert Savoy |
| 4:15pm -6:00pm | Laboratory Tour; Collection of Structural Data on One Subject | Robert Savoy & Imaging Staff (Molly LaPoint) |
TUESDAY |
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| 8:00am -10:00am | Experimental Task Design in Functional MRI | Robert Savoy |
| 10:30am -11:30am | Data Analysis Part 2: Preprocessing | Doug Greve |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm | Experimental Design Workshop | Robert Savoy |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00pm - 1:45pm | Advances in Single Trial Design | Doug Greve or Robert Savoy |
| 1:45pm - 2:15pm | Visualizing Regressors for Rapid Event Related Analysis: The Finite Impulse Response (FIR) Model) | Robert Savoy |
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Computational Neuroanatomy | Anastasia Yendiki |
| 4:15pm - 5:15pm | Analysis Part 3: First Level Modelling and Estimation | Doug Greve |
| 6:00pm -7:00pm | Dinner in the Atrium | |
| 7:10pm - 10:00pm | Experimental Task Design Workshop; Consultations | Staff (Jenelle Feather, Doug Greve, Blaise Frederick, Robert Savoy) |
WEDNESDAY |
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| 9:00am -10:30am | Analysis Part 4: Second Level Modelling and Estimation | Doug Greve | |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Introduction to Resting State fMRI Based Connectivity Analysis and Multivariate Analysis | Robert Savoy | |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | DSI / DTI / Tractography: Getting at White Matter Tracts with MRI | Anastasia Yendiki | |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Software Packages: Getting Beyond Point and Click | Gary Strangman | |
| 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Optimizing Data Acquisition; Advanced Techniques in Data Acquisition | Blaise Frederick | |
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm | Refining Experimental Destigns for Class and Future Experiments | Robert Savoy and staff | |
| 6:00pm -7:00pm | Dinner in the Atrium | ||
| 7:10pm - 10:00pm | Implement Experiments; Individual Consultations | Staff | |
THURSDAY |
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| 9:00am -10:30am | General Q & A / Review of Basic and Advanced MRI | (Advanced MRI) Larry Wald or Jon Polimeni / (Basics) Robert Savoy | |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Analysis Part 5: Inference and Critical Thresholds | Doug Greve | |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch (and possible tour of MEG system) | Sheraz Kahn / MEG Staff | |
| 1:00pm - 1:50pm | Quality Assurance (QA) in fMRI Data Analysis | Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli | |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Applications of Seed-Based Functional MRI Connectivity Analysis | Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli | |
| 2:30pm - 5:30pm | Experimental Session (in the MRI suite); Consulting Time (in the classroom) | Staff | |
FRIDAY |
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| 9:00am -10:00am | Describe Analysis of Class Experiments with FreeSurfer/FSFAST | Doug Greve |
| 10:00am -11:30am | Interactive Analysis of Thursday's Experiments (FreeSurfer/FSFAST) | Doug Greve and staff |
| 11:30am -12:15pm | Group Presentation of Results | Class Participants |
| 12:15pm - 1:00pm | Closing Discussions/Evaluations | Robert Savoy |
