Wednesday, Nov. 8
AM: Lectures (BI 4269)
9:00-9:30 Monica Fabiani: Welcome and overview of schedule
9:30-10:30 Monica Fabiani: Overview of Optical Imaging (types of signals, and what you can do with them)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:45 Gabriele Gratton: Physics and Instrumentation
11:45-1:30 Lunch Break
PM: Overview of recording and preprocessing (BI 4269)
The afternoon topics will include an introduction to and overview of all steps needed for data recording, quality control, data organization, and flow of analysis software.
1:30-2:30 Kathy Low: Overview of optical lab procedures, designing montages, data collection software (Imagent 1 Boxy), optical flowchart
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-5:00 Kathy Low and Ed Maclin: Co-registration with structural MRI, quality control and pre-processing.
Thursday, Nov. 9
AM: Experimental design and applications (room 4269)
9:00-10:00 Gabriele Gratton: Experimental paradigms and related issues (design, controls, etc.)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 Monica Fabiani: Brain pulse measurement and applications
11:45-1:30 Lunch Break
PM: Data Analysis theory and software (room 4269)
1:30-3:00 Gabriele Gratton: 3D reconstruction and statistical analysis
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 Kathy Low: overview of dedicated software
5:00-5:15 Concluding remarks
Friday, Nov. 10 (Optional, small group, DOIL lab)
9:00-12:00 Kathy Low and Ed Maclin: Hands-on demos
12:00-2:00 Lunch on your own
2:00-5:00 Dennis Hueber and/or Mebin George: Imagent V.2 overview