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== Goal ==

* Discuss DTI tools
* Discuss DTI clinical projects

== Activities ==

* Demonstration of FiberViewer and FiberTracking software (Sampath Vetsa)
** Training on step-by-step process for using software
*** Computing tensor image from diffusion weighted images
*** Identifying and drawing regions-of-interest using InsightSNAP
*** Performing tractography
*** Analysis of FA,MD,eigenvalue properties along tracts of interest (splenium and genu used as examples)
** Feedback from UCI group on software ease-of-use
** UCI group installed and tested software live on their machines - Jim Fallon tested software looking for challenging tracts in neonate data
* Discussion of high-performance visualization of fiber tracts using modern graphics hardware (Vid Petrovic)
* Clinical projects using DTI
** Explanation by Jim Fallon of previous studies in connection differences between schizophrenics and controls
** Discussion of Krabbe study between Martin Styner and Jim Fallon

== Participants ==

* Jim Fallon (UC Irvine)
* Martina Panzenboeck (UC Irvine)
* Vid Petrovic (UC Irvine)
* Guido Gerig (UNC)
* Martin Styner (UNC)
* Isabelle Corouge (UNC)
* Sampath Vetsa (UNC)
* Casey Goodlett (UNC)