Talks by representatives from leading institutions in the field of MR DWI analysis research will guarantee a broad coverage of fundamental issues and latest research. The talks will be inter-twined and collaborative, covering all aspects of diffusion imaging such as data acquisition, modeling, registration, statistics and analysis.
Venue
Huxley Building, Imperial College, London
(Map: Location 15)
Speakers
Daniel Alexander, PhD, University College London
Yaniv Assaf, PhD, Tel Aviv University
Denis LeBihan, MD, PhD, NeuroSpin
Rachid Deriche, PhD, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
Derek Jones, PhD, Cardiff University
Evren Ozarslan, PhD, NIH
Sharon Peled, PhD, Harvard
Baba Vemuri, PhD, Univ of Florida
Ragini Verma, PhD, UPenn
Carl-Fredrik Westin, PhD, Harvard
| Schedule |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Breakfast / Coffee |
| Overview |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Denis LeBihan | Diffusion MRI: From birth to teenage hood, abstract, related publications, slides (84Mb) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Derek Jones | Where have we been, where are we now – and where are we going, abstract, slides (50Mb) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee + Questions |
| Tissue Modeling |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Sharon Peled | Modeling Fiber Crossings, abstract, slides |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Yaniv Assaf | Inferring Microstructural Information on White Matter from Diffusion MRI, abstract, slides |
| Diffusion Models |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Rachid Deriche | High Order Models in Diffusion MRI, abstract, slides (50Mb) |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Daniel Alexander | From tissue model to diffusion signal: how to measure microstructure, abstract, slides |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Evren Ozarslan | Resolution of tissue microstructure via diffusion MR: Beyond mapping orientations, abstract, slides |
| Registration/Tractography/Analysis |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Baba Vemuri | Theory & Algorithms for pairwise and groupwise registration of DWMRI data sets, abstract, slides |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee + Questions |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Carl-Fredrik Westin | Trends in Tractography Methods, abstract, slides |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Ragini Verma | HARDI in the clinic, abstract, slides |
| Panel discussion |
| 5:00 - 6:00 | Derek Jones |