BrainVoyager Training Course in Nijmegen

The first BrainVoyager Training Course held in the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging will take place on 7th and 8th of September 2001. It will be held by Rainer Goebel, author of BrainVoyager, together with colleagues who have extensive experience in using the software. The first day will teach the first steps on how to use BrainVoyager whereas the second day presents more advanced features of the software.

In the morning sessions, lectures on how to use BrainVoyager will be presented with a focus on background knowledge. The afternoon sessions offer the opportunity to work with BrainVoyager on sample data as well as on data measured in the afternoon of the first day of the course together with the participants. The exercises are done on powerful workstations and are supervised by tutors.

Note, that the number of participants is limited to 25 persons. The participation costs are EUR 200. The costs cover the course, lunch and refreshments but do not include accommodation. If you are interested in participating on this course, send an email to Course@BrainVoyager.com. You will then receive further information about the course as well as addresses of hotels.

Program

Day 1

    9:00 -   9:30  Introduction and Overview
    9:30 - 10:30  Creating projects, stimulation protocols, data preprocessing
  10:30 - 11:00

- Coffee break -

  11:00 - 11:30  Talairach transformation of functional and anatomical data sets
  11:30 - 12:30  Statistical analysis of block and event-related designs
  12:30 - 14:00

- Lunch break -

  14:00 - 16:00  Exercise 1: Analyzing a block-design experiment
  16:00 - 16:30

 - Coffee break -

  16:30 - 18:00  Exercise 2: Analyzing a block-design experiment II
  18:30 - 19:30

 - FMRI measurement on the 1.5T Siemens Sonata scanner -


Day 2

    9:00 - 10:00  Design matrices, conjunction analysis, random effects analysis
  10:00 - 11:00  Segmentation and surface reconstruction of head and cortex
  11:00 - 11:30

- Coffee break -

  11:30 - 12:30  Real-time fMRI with Turbo-BrainVoyager
  12:30 - 13:00  Cortex-based Independent Component Analysis
  13:00 - 14:00

- Lunch break -

  14:00 - 16:00  Exercise 1: Analyzing an event-related paradigm
  16:00 - 16:30

 - Coffee break -

  16:30 - 18:30  Exercise 2: Segmentation and cortex flattening