HST.583 2017 Brain Mapping for Neurosurgery

Course Description

The 'Presurgical Mapping & Clinical decision making based on fMRI and dMRI course is an introduction to the basics of the use of post-processing methods to build patient specific brain maps from fMRI and diffusion MRI data for surgical planning of brain tumor resection. The session is part of the HST.583 HST.583 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Data Acquisition and Analysis, a multidisciplinary course which provides information relevant to the conduct and interpretation of human brain mapping studies.

Course Faculty

Sonia Pujol, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Course Logistics

• Date: November 20, 2017, 12:30-2:00 pm
• Venue: HST.583, MIT
• Location: MIT Lab Room, TBA

Course Materials

In preparation of the course, please download the software and datasets:

• 3D Slicer version 4.4
• 3D Visualization Dataset
• Slicer DTI tutorial Dataset
• DTIPrep Diffusion Dataset
• White Matter Exploration dataset