SPM fMRI course in Calary Canada SPM8

SPM8 for Basic and Clinical Investigators is an intermediate-level, 5-day workshop designed for investigators having familiarity with the fundamental principles of fMRI measurement and design, with at least six months experience in functional neuroimaging data acquisition and analysis.

The strongly interactive workshop will focus on using SPM8 and its extensions for preprocessing, statistical modeling and visualization of data associated with a range of basic and clinical fMRI experimental designs. While the primary emphasis will involve using the core SPM8 programs for these purposes, there will also be extensive discussion of a variety of software tools that extend the power of SPM8. Some of these tools facilitate fMRI quality assurance through artifact detection and mitigation at various analysis stages. Other tools support a variety of data visualization methods, including MRIcron, xjView, FSLview, and FreeSurfer.

As the presentations will include demonstrations and tutorials utilizing SPM8, participants are expected to bring a laptop with MATLAB, SPM8 and MRIcron already installed. Detailed setup instructions can be found here.

Registration information for this program may be found here.

You can arrange payment using PAYPAL here.

The course is sponsored by the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary and will be held at the University of Calgary in Calgary, AB Canada from October 1-5, 2012. Lectures will be held in the Taylor Family Digital Library (the Main Library).

The Visualization studio room number is TFDL 466B. Take the main elevator to the fourth floor, and it is to the left when you get off the elevator

The fee for the program is $1500. Reduced rates of $1250 for post-doctoral fellows and $1000 for undergraduate, graduate or medical students are available. A 20% discount is available to all University of Calgary investigators.

Accommodations: There are rooms available at the nearby Hotel Alma, which is on campus.

Questions about the course should be directed to spmbasics@neurometrika.org

Lectures will be given by Tom Zeffiro.

Educational Objectives

Understand the basic organization of the SPM GUI
Understand the organization of the SPM "toolbox"
Be able to construct batch processing scripts for preprocessing and statistical modeling
Understand the basic fMRI data preprocessing steps
Be able to construct a preprocessing sequence including slice time correction, realignment, and spatial filtering
Understand the origins of the artifacts most commonly encountered in fMRI datasets
Be able to utilize explore an fMRI dataset for artifacts and effect repairs as needed
Understand the basic fMRI single subject experimental design types
Be able to implement statistical analysis procedures for the basic single subject fMRI designs
Understand the basic fMRI single group experimental design types
Be able to implement statistical analysis procedures for the basic single group fMRI designs
Understand the basic fMRI multiple group experimental design types
Be able to implement statistical analysis procedures for the basic multiple group fMRI designs
Understand the process of incorporation of covariates in fMRI experimental designs
Be able to construct and estimate statistical models involving covariates
Be able to utilize the RIC Talairach Daemon for region labeling
Be able to utilize the SPM Anatomy toolbox for region labeling
Be able to utilize the FreeSurfer for region labeling
Be able to export SPM statistical maps to FreeSurfer to visualize results on the cortical surface
Be able to use MRIcron for visualization, including volume rendering
Be able to use xjView for visualization and labeling