2010-Slicer-UNCDuke

Introduction

A one-day Slicer tutorial will be held at UNC and Duke University on August 11, 2010. The primary objective of these 2 Slicer tutorial events is to introduce users at both universities to the Slicer environment, with a particular focus on its use for visualization, fiber tracking, and editing.

Faculty

• Ron Kikinis, M.D.
• Steve Pieper, Ph.D.
• Martin Styner, Ph.D.
• Ipek Oguz, Ph.D.

Tentative Agenda

A 3-3.5 hour tutorial event at each site

• Morning 8:30-12 @ Duke
  • NA-MIC kit overview
  • Slicer basic visualization
  • Slicer interactive editing
  • Slicer DTI
• Afternoon 1:30-5pm @ UNC
  • NA-MIC kit overview
  • Slicer basic visualization
  • Slicer interactive editing
  • Slicer DTI

Logistics

• To register for the tutorial @ Duke, please email Allan Johnson: gjohnson at duke.edu
• Location @ Duke: TBA
• To register for the tutorial @ UNC, please email Ipek Oguz: ipek at cs.unc.edu
• Location @ UNC: Brooks Building, Rm 141 (Faculty Conference Room)

Preparations

• Bring your own laptop with Slicer already installed. Please select the appropriate version relative to the platform you'll be using. We will post the version we want to use in a few days.
• Hardware minimum requirement: 2GB of main memory and graphics hardware acceleration with 256 MB of dedicated graphics memory (nvidia preferred).

Recommended: 4-8GB of main memory and 512MB or more of dedicated graphics memory with a nvidia gpu.

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

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