We'll meet in the same place: Room 309 in Speech and Hearing Science (1131 E 2nd St, Building 71) on the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month at 9 am for one hour. The goal of the meeting is to discuss methodological issues and tools and to keep everyone informed about ongoing issues with the scanner, new hires, new equipment etc. This helps all of us know who we can consult about issues that come up in our own research.
Jan 20: Planning (and we heard from Elena about the Imaging committee meeting)
Feb 3: Manoj Saranathan: Myelin mapping
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Dianne will bring a mac laptop for the Feb 17 and March 3 sessions. We can browse to a site from there, or you can bring material on a USB key.
Feb 17: Short discussions of favorite resources. Dianne will talk about Mango/iMango and Scientifig. We may also discuss xjView (a tool add on for spm), MRIcron, MRIcroGL etc. Favorite books and websites are also on the table. We want to hear about the little tools and resources that make things work for you.
March 3: Cancelled. You should sleep in, I will.
Spring Break
April 7: The 5 year neuroimaging plan for the U of A (discussion of what we want: equipment, training etc)
April 21: Julia Fisher: A statistician's view of the Eklund paper. See also Nichols_Holmes_2001.pdf.
May 5: Cancelled Ed Bedrick : Bayesian statistics and Neuroimaging
Digital Anatomist: Website
Utah: Neuroanatomy Tutorial: Website
The online brain atlas reconciliation tool: Website (reconciles different brain region naming conventions)
BrainInfo: Website (standardized region naming and acronyms)
Massive Memory Database An online repository of useful images to use as stimuli
Human Connectome Workbench: Replaces Caret as a flat mapping tool and much more
Freesurfer: Tool for flat mapping and brain inflation
Mango/iMango: Tool for masking, 3d rendering and more. iMango runs on the ipad, and is thus very useful for masking
MRIcroGL: Relative of MRIcron, optimized for rendering in 3d
MRtrix: A diffusion imaging tool with a bunch of interesting options for handling complex data.
Scientifig: Tool for creating scientific figures, includes journal-specific reformatting
xjView: SPM extension for viewing images, includes anatomy locator
Books
Atlas of the Cerebral Sulci by Ono, Kubik and Abernatyey, 1990 (Book)
MRI Atlas of Human White Matter by Mori Wakana et al. 2005 (Book)