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Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS DISCUSSIONS
Overview

1

Introduction to Course

Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Safety and Human Subjects Issues, pt. 1 (PDF)

Notes on Human Subjects (PDF)

Functional Neural Systems
2

Overview of Neural Systems (PDF)

Neural Signal Processing (PDF - 1.6 MB)

3

Visual System

Somatosensory and Motor Systems

How the Brain Processes Visual Information, Insights & Controversies from Neuroimaging Studies (Kanwisher & Haxby papers)
4

Memory Systems

Attention, Motivation, Emotion

Imaging Physiology
5 Overview of Imaging Physiology
Applied Respiratory and Cardiovascular Physiology I
Coupling Between Neural Activity and CBF Changes (Iadecola & Mintun papers)
6 Applied Respiratory and Cardiovascular Physiology II Impact of Physiological Noise on Analysis and Interpretation of fMRI Data
7 Cerebrovascular Anatomy and Neural Regulation of CNS Blood Flow (PDF)
8

Neurovascular Coupling

Global vs Regionally Specific Changes in CBF and Metabolism

Localization in fMRI Data Sets - Comparison with Other Types of Neuroscience Data (Veltman & Disbrow papers)
Physics of Image Acquisition
9 Overview of Structural and functional MRI Signal Acquisition
10

The NMR Signal: Magnetization, Excitation, Detection, NMR Signal, SNR (PDF - 2.2 MB)

Monitoring the NMR Signal: NMR Measurements, T2*, T2, Gradients, Gradient-Echo, Spin-echo

MR Signal Detection, Phased Array Receiver Coils
11

MRI: Spatially Encoding the NMR Signal Frequency, Slice and Phase Encoding, Spin Warp (PDF - 1.7 MB)

Basics of Fast MRI K-space, Fast Imaging, Distortions

Parallel Image Acquisition Strategies
12

Review: Spatial Encoding, k-space

MonRI Contrasts: T1,T2,T2*, Diffusion

Physics of MR Image Acquisition: Review & MRI Contrast (PDF)

13

BOLD Contrast (part 1) Hemodynamic Response, Temporal, Spatial Resolution (PDF)

Improving fMRI Signal Detection Using Physiological Data

Temporal and Spatial Resolution (e.g. New Logothetis Articles in Neuron and Nature)
14

BOLD Contrast (part 2) Physiological Noise, Field Strength (PDF)

Alternatives to BOLD Review of BOLD, Perfusion vs BOLD, Arterial Spin Labelling, Cerebral Blood Volume

Physics of MR Image Acquisition: Altervatives to BOLD for fMRI (PDF)

15

Physics of Diffusion Weighted Imaging

Physics and Clinical Applications of Perfusion Weighted Imaging

ASL (Wong Paper)
16

Quantitative fMRI

CBV, CBF & ASL

17 Mid-term Exam Safety and Human Subjects Issues, pt. 2. Ethics Module
Experiment Design
18 General Principles of Experimental Design, pt. 1 Paradigm Design (Manoach and Stark)
19

General Principles of Experimental Design, pt. 2

Psychological State Variables in Imaging

Statistical Analysis
20

Overview of fMRI Statistical Analysis

Introduction to Univariate Analysis of fMRI Data - part 1

Probability Notes (PDF)
Statistics Notes (PDF)

Review of Principles of Statistical Inference
21 Introduction to Univariate Analysis of fMRI Data - part 2
22

Multivariate Statistical Approaches to fMRI Data Analysis (PDF)

Group Analysis of fMRI Data

23

Building New Statistical Models for fMRI Data

24 Statistical Efficiency in fMRI Paradigm Design (PDF) Statistics Q'&'A
Structural Analysis
25 Surface Based Anatomical Analysis
26

Spatial Normalization for Anatomic Analysis

Clinical and Basic Neuroscience Applications of Diffusion Tensor Imaging

What is Baseline (discussion of Squire paper)
27 Final Exam