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,...
EPIDEM2019 Spring 2020
2/14 – Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Charles Laymon, PhD Physicist and Assistant Professor of Radiology laymoncm@upmc.edu Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Overview of physical principles, PET instrumentation, data acquisition, quantitative corrections (e.g. scatter, attenuation), and image...
2/21 – Structure II (Diffusion weighted imaging to measure connectivity)
Fang-Cheng (Frank) Yeh, MD, PhD Neurological Surgery Director, Fiber Tractography Lab frank.yeh@pitt.edu Structure II (Diffusion weighted imaging to measure connectivity) The lecture will cover the principles of diffusion-weighting, DTI, validities,...
2/28 – MEG and EEG
Avniel Singh Ghuman, PhD Director, MEG Research Lab asg50@pitt.edu MEG and EEG Magnetoencephalography for brain electrophysiology and imaging A Comprehensive Review of Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Studies for Brain Functionality in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s...
3/6 – Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)
Theodore Huppert, PhD 1st draft of the poster due today Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) Principles of data acquisition and interpretation of continuous wave, frequency domain, and diffuse correlation spectroscopy forms of fNIRS using commercially...
3/20 – Topics Revisions, Chalk Talk
Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH, Theodore Huppert, PhD Topics’ Revisions, Chalk Talk Return your critique of your peers’ posters (each person reviews 2 posters) (each group will receive reviews from 6 peers and the instructor)