Imaging in Neuroscience

The 3D Slicer software platform will be presented as part of the Harvard Catalyst course "Advanced Imaging: Imaging in Neuroscience" course organized by Dr. Randy Gollub

Course Faculty

• Junichi Tokuda, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Presenter)
• Nicole Aucoin, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Sonia Pujol, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Randy L. Gollub, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• P. Ellen Grant, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Daniel Haehn, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Nicolas Rannou, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Nathaniel A Reynolds, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Course Logistics

Date: April 8, 2013, 11:30-12:00 Location: Sheraton Commander Hotel, Boston, MA

Agenda

• 11:30-12:00: The 3D Slicer open-source platform for image analysis and 3D visualization of medical image data (lecture)
• 12:00-1:00: Slicer4 minute tutorial (hands-on session) and Diffusion tractography (demo)

3D Slicer course - Imaging in Neuroscience

Note:

• Slide page 37 (For those who downloaded the slide before Apr 7): "Load scene" menu is not available in the current version of 3D Slicer (version 4.2.2). Please choose "Add data" instead.
• Slice page 48: If the white matter surface does not appear, please select "hemisphelic_white_matter.vtk" and uncheck "Clip" (see the screenshot bellow).

Course Materials

In preparation for the hands-on session, please download the 3D Slicer release version 4.2.2-1 and the Slicer4 minute datasets.

3D Slicer 4.x (blue download button)

Slicer4minute dataset (hands-on)

DTI dataset (demo)

Additional materials for learning more about 3D Slicer are available on the Slicer 101 page.