Beijing 2010 NA-MIC Workshop

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Objective of the Workshop

The primary objective of this event is to introduce clinical users to the Slicer environment, with a particular focus on its use for neurosurgical applications and fiber tracking.

Logistics

• Date: September 24, 2010 - 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
• Location: Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Faculty

• Ron Kikinis, M.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Xiaolei Chen, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital
• Sonia Pujol, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Nobuhiko Hata, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Tentative Agenda

• 8:30-9:00 am Computer setup assistance by the instructors
• 9:00-9:15 am Welcome and Goals of the Workshop
• 9:15-9:45 am Introduction to NA-MIC and the Slicer community (Ron Kikinis)
• 9:45-10:45 am 3D Visualization of the Anatomy (part1) (Sonia Pujol)
• 10:45-11:00 am Coffee break
• 11:00-11:45 am 3D Visualization of the Anatomy (part 2) (Sonia Pujol)
• 11:45-1:00 pm Lunch
• 1:00 pm -1:45 pm Diffusion Tensor Imaging: from DWI to DTI data (Sonia Pujol)
• 1:45 pm -2:45 pm Diffusion Tensor Imaging: from DTI data to fiber bundles (Sonia Pujol)
• 2:45-3:00 pm Coffee Break
• 3:00-4:30 pm Neurosurgical Planning (Noby Hata)
• 4:30-5:00 pm Questions from the audience and concluding remarks

Preparation for the Workshop

The workshop combines oral presentations and instructor-led hands-on sessions with the participants working on their own laptop computers. A technical training staff will be providing one-to-one assistance as needed. All participants are required to come with their own computer and install the software and datasets. A minimum of 1 GB of RAM (2 GB if possible) and a dedicated graphic accelerator with 64mb of on board graphic memory are required. The version of the software and the dataset to download will be posted a few weeks before the event.

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