Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA

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SPM8 Quick Start

 
October 4, 2009
 
Schedule
 
9:00AM - 12:00PM    Introduction and preprocessing
12:00PM - 1:30PM    Lunch
1:30PM - 4:30PM     Statistical modeling
4:30PM - 5:30PM     Review and questions
 
 
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SPM8 Basics

 
October 5-7, 2009
 
Schedule
 

Day 1

 
9AM-12PM Introduction to SPM8 

• Workshop overview – Zeffiro/Savoy
• New features in SPM8 – Zeffiro
• The SPM8 interface - Zeffiro
• Introduction to batch processing - Zeffiro
• Structural processing - Zeffiro

 
12PM-1:30PM LUNCH 
 
1:30PM-4:30PM Preprocessing

• Preprocessing overview and background - Zeffiro
• Slice time correction - Zeffiro
• Realignment - Zeffiro
• Unwarping – Zeffiro
• Spatial filtering - Zeffiro
• Spatial normalization – Zeffiro

 
4:30-5:30PM Questions

 
Day 2

 
9AM-12PM Artifact prevention, detection and mitigation 

• Direct and spatial nomalization - Zeffiro
• Sources of artifacts in EPI – Zeffiro
• Detection and repair of EPI artifacts – Whitfield-Gabrieli
• ART demonstration – Whitfield-Gabrieli
• Visualization with SPM8, FreeSurfer, MRIcron and xjview - Zeffiro

 
12PM-1:30PM LUNCH
 
1:30PM-4:30PM First-level experimental design and analysis 

• Experimental design in fMRI – Savoy
• Statistical modeling in SPM8: summary statistics - Zeffiro
• First-level fMRI designs overview - Zeffiro
• First-level fMRI designs demonstration - Zeffiro

 
4:30-5:30PM Questions
 
THIRD DAY

9AM-12PM Second-level experimental design and analysis 

• Second-level fMRI designs overview - Zeffiro
• Second-level fMRI designs demonstration - Zeffiro
• Anatomical localization and labeling - Zeffiro
• Anatomical localization demonstration - Zeffiro

 
12PM-1:30PM LUNCH
 
1:30PM-4:30PM Functional connectivity

• ROI processing
• Batch processing revisited - Zeffiro
• Batch processing demonstration - Zeffiro

 
4:30-5:30PM Questions
 
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SPM8 Multivariate Modeling

 
 
October 8-9, 2009
 
Schedule
 
Day 1
 
9:00AM - 12:00PM Introduction
  * Workshop overview
  * Functional connectivity overview
  * Bivariate correlation
  * Independent components analysis
12:00PM - 1:30PM Lunch
1:30PM - 4:30PM
  * Effective connectivity overview
  * Structural equation modeling
  * Mediation analysis
4:30PM - 5:30PM Special topics and questions
 
Day 2
 
9:00AM - 12:00PM Psychophysiological Interactions
12:00PM - 1:30PM Lunch
1:30PM - 4:30PM Dynamic causal modeling
4:30PM - 5:30PM Special topics and questions