Program

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