FreeSurfer Course, December 12-14, 2011

MGH, Charlestown Navy Yard, Building 149, Conference Room A

Monday, December 12th - Introduction / Single Subject / MRI / Longitudinal/ Troubleshooting

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:00 - 8:30

optional - Unix Tutorial for FreeSurfer Users online practice

tutorial

Allison Stevens

8:30 - 9:00

optional - Intro to FreeSurfer Jargon

talk

Allison Stevens

8:30 - 9:00

Course Registration

sign-in

staff

9:00 - 9:30

Introduction to Freesurfer

talk

Bruce Fischl

9:30 - 10:30

Analyzing the Individual Subject

talk

Doug Greve

10:30 - 10:50

break

10:50 - 11:20

Tkmedit/Tksurfer demonstration

demo

Doug Greve

11:20 - 11:50

Interaction with Individual Subject Data Tutorial

tutorial

staff

11:50 - 12:30

Surface-based Smoothing/Surface-based Registration

talk

Doug Greve

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch (Suggestions)

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1:00 - 1:30

Optional Lunch Talk- A Non-physicist's Intro to MR SpinBench

talk

Dylan Tisdall

1:30 - 2:15

Registration Methods

talk

Lilla Zollei

2:15- 2:55

Failure Modes

talk

Bruce Fischl

2:55 - 3:15

break

3:15 - 3:35

Troubleshooting Demonstration

demo

Allison

3:35 - 4:35

Troubleshooting Tutorial

tutorial

staff

4:35 - 5:30

Quality Checking a Recon

demo

Allison Stevens

5:30 -

optional - FreeSurfer Installation on Personal Laptops

one-on-one

staff

5:30 -

optional - Start Processing Your Own Data

one-on-one

staff

Boston Beer Works location information here and here.
Meet us at 6:40pm at the front of Building 149 (the entrance on the opposite side of the building from where the Course is held).
If you miss us, we are taking the 6:45pm MGH/Navy Yard shuttle to North Station (the next one departs at 6:45pm). From there, you cross the street and go down Canal Street. Boston Beer Works will be on your right.

Tuesday, December 13th - Group Analysis/ ROIs / Registration / Diffusion

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

9:00 - 10:00

ROI Analysis

talk

Doug Greve

10:00 - 10:30

ROI Analysis Tutorial

tutorial

staff

10:30 - 10:50

break

10:50 - 11:20

Longitudinal FreeSurfer see also: LongitudinalProcessing

talk

Martin Reuter

11:20 - 12:10

Longitudinal Tutorial

tutorial

staff

12:10 - 1:10

Lunch

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12:40 - 1:10

Optional Lunch Talk- MRI Acquisition Methods for Morphometry

talk

Andre van der Kouwe

1:10 - 1:40

Future Directions: Inferring architectonic boundaries from in-vivo MRI

talk

Bruce Fischl

1:40 - 2:40

Multi-Modal Integration

talk

Doug Greve

2:40 - 3:00

break

3:00 - 3:45

Multi-Modal Integration Tutorial

tutorial

staff

3:45 - 4:45

Group Analysis / GLM / Multiple Comparisons

talk

Mert Sabuncu

4:45 - 5:15

QDEC demonstration

demo

Nick Schmansky

5:15 - 6:15

Group Analysis / Multiple Comparisons - mri_glmfit Tutorial

tutorial

staff

5:15 - 6:15

Group Analysis - qdec Tutorial

tutorial

staff

Alternatively:

9:00 - 10:00

Group Analysis / GLM / Multiple Comparisons

talk

Mert Sabuncu

10:00 - 10:30

QDEC demonstration

demo

Nick Schmansky

10:30 - 10:50

break

10:50 - 11:50

Group Analysis / Multiple Comparisons - mri_glmfit Tutorial

tutorial

staff

10:50 - 11:50

Group Analysis - qdec Tutorial

tutorial

staff

11:50 - 12:50

Lunch

--

--

12:15 - 12:45

Optional Lunch Talk- MRI Acquisition Methods for Morphometry

talk

Andre van der Kouwe

12:50 - 1:20

Future Directions: Inferring architectonic boundaries from in-vivo MRI

talk

Bruce Fischl

1:20 - 2:20

ROI Analysis

talk

Doug Greve

2:20 - 2:50

ROI Analysis Tutorial

tutorial

staff

2:50 - 3:10

break

3:10 - 3:40

Longitudinal FreeSurfer see also: LongitudinalProcessing

talk

Martin Reuter

3:40 - 4:30

Longitudinal Tutorial

tutorial

staff

4:30 - 5:30

Multi-Modal Integration

talk

Doug Greve

5:30 - 6:15

Multi-Modal Integration Tutorial

tutorial

staff

Wednesday, December 14th - Multi-Modal / Future Directions / fMRI / Q&A

9:00 - 10:00

Basics of fMRI Analysis

talk

Doug Greve

10:00 - 10:20

break

10:20 - 11:40

FSFAST

talk

Doug Greve

11:40 - 12:40

FSFAST Tutorial

tutorial

staff

12:40 - 1:40

Lunch

--

--

1:10 - 1:40

Optional Lunch Talk- Motion-compensated neuroanatomical imaging

talk

Dylan Tisdall

1:40 - 2:40

Introduction to Diffusion MRI

talk

Anastasia Yendiki

2:40 - 3:25

Diffusion Processing Tutorial

tutorial

staff

3:25 - 3:45

break & Evaluation

3:45 - 4:15

TRActs Constrained by UnderLying Anatomy (TRACULA)

talk

Anastasia Yendiki

4:15 - 5:00

Tracula Tutorial

tutorial

staff

5:00 - 5:30

Question and Answer Session, FsQuiz

talk

staff