MORNING PRESENTATIONS

7:30 – 8:00 am     Registration and fMRI screening form.

Continental Breakfast and Coffee

ESSENTIALS OF FMRI IMAGING

8:00 – 8:10          Welcome and overview of the 2-day fMRI-DTI course
                            Scott H. Faro, MD, FASFNR
 

8:10 – 8:35          Introduction to BOLD, Paradigm Design 

    for Task Based BOLD fMRI

                             Christopher Conklin, Ph.D.

8:35 – 8:50          Introduction to General Linear Model for BOLD fMRI

                             Feroze B. Mohamed, Ph.D.

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8:50 – 9:10          Presenting BOLD fMRI Data-Statistical Processing Strategies
                            Devon Middleton, PhD

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9:10 – 10:00        Clinical Overview of Motor and Language BOLD fMRI - Paradigms, 

   Statistics, Interpretation and Reporting and Billing (CPT codes)

                            Scott H. Faro, MD, FASFNR

10:00 - 10:15      Coffee Break

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10:15 – 11:00       Clinical case review of BOLD fMRI 

                            Kiran S. Talekar, MD, MBBS, FASFNR

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11:00 – 11:20       Review of Neurovascular Uncoupling (NVU) in BOLD fMRI

                            Joga Chaganti, MD

11:20 – 12:15 pm  Introduction to Clinical Applications of DTI Tractography

                            Michael Hoch, MD

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12:15 – 1:00      Lunch break (local take out)

AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS

1:00 – 2:30    Participating in fMRI scanning session on our Prisma 3T 

Meet at the entrance of the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience 

(on 9th between Walnut and Locust St.) at 1:00pm

2:30 – 3:30       Clinical fMRI/DTI case-based review

                            Kiran S. Talekar, MD, MBBS, FASFNR

3:30 – 3:45         Coffee Break

LANGUAGE DATA PROCESSING

3:45 – 5:00          Practical Exercises on Language BOLD Data: 

    Routine and Advanced Processing

                           Devon Middleton, PhD

                           - Step by Step Hands-on Demonstration

​Support Faculty:

Devon Middleton, PhD,
Sara Naghizadehkashani, MD,
Zahra Sedeghi-Adl, MS (PhD Student)

Sahar Monadi, MD,

Spandanas Tammiraju, MD,
Feroze B. Mohamed, PhD, FASFNR 

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5:00 – 5:15          Review SPM Processing and Resting State fMRI with Q&A Session   

  All Faculty

​

5:15                 First day Workshop Concludes

5:15 +              Join us for a cocktail reception at a local restaurant.

MORNING PRESENTATIONS

7:30 - 8:00 am     Continental Breakfast and Coffee

8:00 – 8:05          Welcome
                              Scott H. Faro, MD, FASFNR

RESTING STATE FMRI

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8:05 – 8:45          Introduction to Resting State fMRI rsfMRI
                            Mahdi Alizadeh, Ph.D.

8:45 – 9:00          Introduction to ICA for rsfMRI

       Sara Naghizadehkashani, MD

9:00 – 10:00        

Parallel Session 1: Practical Exercise on seed based Resting State Analysis

Mahdi Alizadeh, Ph.D.

Parallel Session 2: Practical Exercise on BOLD fMRI for Language Mapping

Devon Middleton, PhD

• Step by Step Hands-on Lecture

10:00 -10:15       Coffee Break

RESTING STATE FMRI

10:15 -10:45          Introduction to Physical Principles of DTI/Tractography

                          Mahdi Alizadeh, Ph.D.

10:45 -11:30     Review of anatomy and cognitive features of Major White Matter Tracts

                          Scott H. Faro, MD, FASFNR

NEUROSURGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FMRI-DTI

11:30 - 12:00 pm   Neurosurgery Prospective of fMRI-DTI Brain mapping 

                             Kevin Judy, MD

12:00 -12:30         Clinical Uses of Tractography in Neuromodulation in Functional     Disorders  

                          Kevin Hines, MD

12:30 - 1:00   Pick up Lunch (local takeout)

1:00 – 2:00           Manufacturers Lunch Presentations 

AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS

2:00 -3:15           Manufacturers Hands on Review: Session 1

                           The attendees will be separated into 2 groups to allow    

                              you to take your time with each manufacturer. A hands-on step by           step approach to fMRI and Tractography will be reviewed with           each manufacturer.

3:15 – 3:30         Coffee Break

3:30 – 4:45         Manufacturers Hands on Review: Session 2

The attendees will switch groups

4:45 – 5:00          Wrap-up of clinical fMRI-DTI with Q&A -  All Faculty  

5:00   2-day fMRI-DTI Workshop Concluded