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Satellite Workshop Goals

To educate attendees in the fundamentals of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) data required to make informed decisions about how to analyze their own DTI data.
To provide tutorials on DTI data validation and management (including how to put your image data into NRRD format, an emerging standard endorsed by the NA-MIC and BIRN* communities).
To provide hands on tutorials in the use of NA-MIC DTI analysis tools.
To establish contact between NA-MIC Tookit experts (users and developers) and basic and clinical researchers in the global neuroimaging community.

Workshop Logistics

June 9, 2007, 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM
The workshop is being held in the Michigan Room at the Sheraton Hotel that is hosting the 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Humain Brain Mapping OHBM2007 Conference in Chicago, IL.

Enrollment is limited to approximately 45-50 attendees due to the highly interactive format of the workshop.

The material is targeted for an audience of graduate students, research fellows, junior faculty, research assistants and post-doctoral trainees from among the fields of clinical neuroscience (Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurology) as well as Radiology, and Computer Science.

To register, send an e-mail to Katie Mastrogiacomo (kmast at bwh.harvard.edu). Please include your contact information including full spelling of your name, degree, current institution, preferred email address for communication, your educational background and training and your reason for attending. We would also appreciate it if you would indicate the characteristics of the computer you will be using for the workshop (OS, RAM, Processor).

A deposit is required to hold your place in the workshop. Please mail a check or money order for $50.00 US made out to "Brigham and Women's Hospital, NA-MIC project" to Katie Mastrogiacomo, Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Room L1-050, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115.

Your deposit will be returned to you at the Workshop. If you are unable to attend after registering and give us 48 hours advance notice, your deposit will be returned, otherwise you will forfit this earnest money.

Questions about logistics should be addressed to to Katie Mastrogiacomo (kmast at bwh.harvard.edu, or 617-732-7389). Questions about content of the Workshop should be addressed to Randy Gollub (rgollub at partners.org).

This Workshop is supported by the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149. Information on the National Centers for Biomedical Computing can be obtained from http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformatics.

Guido Gerig, PhD, University of North Carolina
Randy Gollub, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School (Department of Psychiatry and Martinos Center, Department of Radiology, Massachussets General Hospital)
Steve Pieper, PhD, Harvard Medical School (Brigham and Women's Hospital Surgical Planning Laboratory)
Karl Helmer, PhD, Harvard Medical School (Martinos Center, Department of Radiology, Massachussets General Hospital)
Sonia Pujol, PhD, Harvard Medical School (Brigham and Women's Hospital Surgical Planning Laboratory)
Katie Hayes, Brigham and Women's Hospital Surgical Planning Laboratory

Suggested background reading for workshop:

Le Bihan D, Mangin JF, Poupon C, et al. Diffusion tensor imaging:. concepts and applications. J Magn Reson Imaging 2001;13:534–546 [pdf download]
Westin CF, Maier SE, Mamata H, Nabavi A, Jolesz FA, Kikinis R., Processing and Visualization for Diffusion Tensor MRI. Medical Image Analysis, 6(2):