Dear Imaging enthusiast,
The 19th Neuroanatomy and Tractography
Workshop will be held in London between the 21-23rd February 2017 at
the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Denmark Hill Campus, King's College London.
This workshop helps clinicians and scientists to develop and optimise strategies for diffusion data acquisition
and pre-processing, in-vivo white matter dissections using tractography, diffusion data extractions and data analysis. Processing pipelines for both diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and spherical deconvolution (SD) will be presented. This is also an opportunity
to familiarise with fundamentals of white matter anatomy, network neuroscience and disconnection syndromes. The number of participants is limited to 25 to allow 1:1 tutoring. The participants can work on their own datasets (if available, otherwise training
data is provided) and receive advice on processing and dissections from the members of the Natbrainlab.
Neuroanatomy and Tractography Workshop
Programme
Day 1: Fundamentals of Diffusion
Methods
09.00 - 09.30 Registration
09.30 - 09.45: Introduction to the workshop (Marco Catani)
09.45 - 10.00: From post-mortem to virtual dissections (Marco
Catani)
10.00 - 10.45: Introduction to Diffusion Imaging (Flavio
Dell'Acqua)
10.45 - 11.00: Coffee
break
11.00 - 11.45: Diffusion Tractography (Flavio Dell'Acqua)
11.45 - 12.30: Introduction to imaging software & NBL virtual
machine (practical) (Flavio
Dell’Acqua, Francisco De Santiago Requejo)
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
Break
13.30 - 15.30: Diffusion Imaging and Preprocessing (practical) (Pedro
Luque Laguna, Rachel Barrett, Ahmad Beyh)
15.30 - 17:00: Introduction to Tract Dissections
(practical)
(Etta Howells, Stephanie Forkel)
Day 2: Neuroanatomy and Virtual Dissections
09.30 - 11:00: Arcuate fasciculus (Marco Catani)
11.00 - 11.15: Coffee
break
11.15 - 12.30: Ventral pathways (ILF, IFOF, Uncinate fasciculus)
(Stephanie Forkel)
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
Break
13.30 - 15.00: Limbic System (cingulum & fornix) (James Findon)
15.00 - 15.15: Coffee
break
15.15 - 17.00: Projection System (Marco Catani, Stephanie
Forkel and Henrietta Howells)
17.00 - 19.00: Social event (pub quiz and supervised drink
compulsory)
Day 3: Advanced Diffusion Imaging
09.30 - 11.00: Advanced Diffusion Imaging (Flavio Dell’Acqua)
11.00 - 11.15: Coffee
break
11.15 - 12.30: Advanced Diffusion Tractography with StarTrack (practical) (Flavio
Dell’Acqua, Rachel Barrett)
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
Break
13.30 - 15.00: SD-Tractography (Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus, practical) (Henrietta
Howells)
15.00 - 15.15: Coffee
break
15.15 - 16.30: SD-Tractography (Corpus Callosum, practical)
(Stephanie Forkel)
16.30 - 17.30: Concluding Remarks and Future Directions (Marco
Catani)
Kind regards
Petra
Petra Gorham
NatBrainLab Research Coordinator and Communications Officer
NATBRAINLAB
Department of Neuroimaging
King's College London
The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
16 De Crespigny Park
London SE5 8AF
UK
Work days: Mondays and Wednesdays