Charles Laymon, PhD
Physicist and Assistant Professor of Radiology
laymoncm@upmc.edu
Overview of physical principles, PET instrumentation, data acquisition, quantitative corrections (e.g. scatter, attenuation), and image reconstruction methods. Physiologic principles will be discussed to measure cerebral blood flow, cerebral glucose metabolism, ligand/protein binding, and amyloid.
Introduction to Multimodal Neuroimaging View the EPIDEM2019 Syllabus for the Spring 2020 semester.
Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH, Theodore Huppert, PhD Introduction, Basics of MRI I & II Overview of physics, MRI hardware and software. Anatomical localization via use of atlases (e.g,Talairach, MNI) will be covered. Safety issues surrounding the magnetic...
Theodore Huppert, PhD Basics of MRI I & II Overview of physics, MRI hardware and software. Anatomical localization via use of atlases (e.g,Talairach, MNI) will be covered. Safety issues surrounding the magnetic environment and human subject preparation will...
Howard J Aizenstein, MD, PhD Psychiatry, Pitt, CNBC Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory haizenstein@gmail.com Structure I (T₁, T₂, ultra-high field) The basics of MRI will be covered, including T₁, T₂, and T₂* contrast mechanisms,...
Theodore Huppert, PhD Principles of BOLD response and functional connectivity The lecture will cover the basic principles of the hemodynamic response, with implications to quantify resting state connectivity. Arterial Spin Labeling Reveals Disrupted Brain...
Kirk Erickson, PhD Psychology, Pitt, CNBC Director, Brain Aging & Cognitive Health Lab kiericks@pitt.edu Functional MRI (fMRI) task-related The lecture will cover the nature of BOLD response, optimizing pulse sequences for signal/contrast, inhomogeneity,...
