Asia-Pacific BrainVoyager 2000 Training Course

The first Asia-Pacific BrainVoyager Training Course will take place on 28th and 29th of September 2000 in the Singapore General Hospital. It will be held by Rainer Goebel, author of BrainVoyager, together with colleagues who have at least one year of intensive experience in using the software. In the morning lectures, essential topics on how to use BrainVoyager will be presented. The afternoon sessions offer the opportunity to work with BrainVoyager on example data. Ten powerful Pentium III workstations are available for the exercises. Attendees should be familiar with basic concepts of functional MRI and statistics.

The number of participants is limited to 20 persons. The participation costs are EUR 300 which cover the course, lunch and refreshments. It does not include hotel costs. If you are interested in participating on this course, send an email to SingaporeCourse@BrainVoyager.com. You will then receive further information about the course.

Preliminary 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 - 18:30  Exercise 2: Analyzing an event-related paradigm

 

Day 2

    9:00 - 10:00  Interoperability: Accessing BrainVoyager from scripts, Matlab and C++
  10:00 - 11:00  Segmentation and surface reconstructions of the head and cortex
  11:00 - 11:30

- Coffee break -

  11:30 - 12:30  Cortex-based Independent Component Analysis
  12:30 - 13:00  Cortex-based intersubject alignment
  13:00 - 14:00

- Lunch break -

  14:00 - 16:00  Exercise 1: Segmentation and surface reconstruction
  16:00 - 16:30

 - Coffee break -

  16:30 - 18:30  Exercise 2: Cortex flattening and visualization of functional data