Statistical Parametric Mapping

(RADI 6051)

RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES GRADUATE PROGRAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instructor:

 

Jack L. Lancaster, Ph.D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location:

 

Research Imaging Center

 

E-Mail:

 

jlancaster@uthscsa.edu

 

Mailing Address:
Research Imaging Center
UTHSCSA
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229
USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Material.

 

 

Course Outline

 

Topic 1 - Principles of nuclear magnetic resonance and MRI (Chapter 3)

 

Topic 2 - Quantitative measurements using fMRI (Chapter 8)

 

Topic 3 - Hardware for fMRI (Chapter 5)

 

 

 

 

Topic 4 - Spatial and temporal resolution of fMRI (Chapter 7)

 

           Optional  - Ultra-fast MRI (Chapter 4)

 

           Optional - Selection of optimal pulse sequence for fMRI (Chapter 6)

 

           Review of MRI  - Book Chapters 3-8

 

Topic 5 - Effective paradigm design (Chapter 9)

 

           Optional  - The scanner as a psychophysical laboratory

 

Topic 6fMRI Practice at the RII

 

Topic 7  - Overview of fMRI analysis (Chapter 11)

 

           Additional Information about GLM

 

Topic 8  - Preparing fMRI data for statistical analysis (Chapter 12)

 

Topic 9  - Head motion and correction (Chapter 13)

 

Topic 10  - Demo: FEAT for fMRI Processing

 

           Optional                  DICOM Usage at the RIC

 

           Optional                  Descriptor file format

                  Reference frame for the brain and image file organization

                  9-parameter 4x4 transforms

                  Jacobian Determinant Facts

 

                 Optional  - Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)

 

     Topic 11  - Registration, brain atlases and cortical flattening (Chapter 15)

 

     Topic 12           FEAT: Single Session Analysis

FEAT: Advanced Single-Subject Statistics 

FEAT: FMRI Group Analysis

 

     Topic 13           Independent Component Analysis

MELODIC

ICA references

Fslmaths docs

 

    Topic 14            PET Brain Imaging

 

                  Other Materials  PET SPM Example

                                                      PET References