SPM fMRI course Chicago 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.

The workshop next will be held MAR 26-30, 2012 in Room 107 of the Kellog Conference Center in Wieboldt Hall at 340 East Superior Street at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

Directions from the Red LIne are here.

Nearby places to eat can be found here.

Accomodations:

The out-of-town faculty are staying at the Allerton hotel. It is an easy walk to the class rooms.

The Allerton Hotel Chicago (312) 440-1500

701 N Michigan Ave

Chicago, IL

Questions about course arrangements or content should be directed to admin@neurometrika.org

The course instructors are Thomas Zeffiro and Darren Gitelman.

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 Northwestern University investigators.

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