2010-Slicer-StLouis

Introduction

A one-day Slicer tutorial will be held at Washington University in St. Louis on July 1, 2010. The primary objective of this event is to introduce users to the Slicer environment, with a particular focus on its use for neurosurgical applications, fiber tracking, and functional localization.

Faculty

• Wendy Plesniak, Ph.D.
• Nobuhiko Hata, Ph. D.
• Ron Kikinis, M.D.

Tentative Agenda

• 8:00-9:00 am Computer setup assistance by the instructors
• 9:00-9:15 am Welcome and presentation of day activities
• 9:15-9:45 am Introduction to Slicer and the Slicer community (Ron Kikinis)
• 9:45-10:00 am Break and computer setup
• 10:00-11:00 Hands-on session 1: Data Loading and 3D Visualization
  • Visualization Tutorial
  • Visualization Data
• 11:00-11:15 am Coffee break
• 11:15-12:30 pm Hands-on session 2: Interactive Editing
  • Interactive Editing Tutorial
  • Interactive Editing Data
• 12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
• 1:30-2:45 pm Hands-on session 3: Diffusion Tensor Imaging
  • Diffusion MRI Tutorial
  • Diffusion Data
• 3:00-3:15 pm Coffee Break
• 3:15-4:30 pm Hands-on session 4: Neurosurgical Planning
  • Neurosurgery Tutorial
  • Data
• 4:30-5:00 pm Questions from the audience and concluding remarks

Logistics

• Enrollment is now closed. To be placed on the waitlist, please contact dmarcus@wustl.edu.
• Location of the workshop: Farrell Learning and Teaching Center map, Room 303A&B
• Time: 9am - 5 pm (Lunch will be provided)

Preparations

Desktop workstations will be provided or bring your own laptop with the Slicer3.6 release version appropriate to the platform you'll be using.

• Slicer3.6 Software
  • Windows: Slicer3-3.6-2010-06-10-win32.exe
  • Mac: Slicer3-3.6-2010-06-10-darwin-x86.tar.gz
  • Linux 64: Slicer3-3.6-2010-06-10-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
  • Linux 32: Slicer3-3.6-2010-06-10-linux-x86.tar.gz

Hardware minimum requirement: 2GB of main memory and graphics hardware acceleration with 256 MB of dedicated graphics memory (nvidia preferred).

• Datasets: We will post the tutorial datasets a few days before the event.

This event is sponsored by the Washington Univeristy Neuroimaging Informatics and Analysis Center.

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