7:30 am Registration Opens
8:00 am Welcome
8:15 am Issues Concerning High Magnetic Fields and High Radio Frequencies in Human Imaging and Spectroscopy: Safety, RF Penetration, RF Deposition
10:00 am BREAK (15 minutes)
10:15 am Imaging at High Fields; RF Pulses, Fast Imaging, Imaging with Low Nuclei, Field Dependence of Anatomical, Functional and Physiological Contrast
12:00-1:00 pm LUNCH BREAK
1:00 pm Imaging at High Fields; RF Pulses, Fast Imaging, Imaging with Low Nuclei, Field Dependence of Anatomical, Functional and Physiological Contrast (CONTINUED)
2:45 pm BREAK (15 minutes)
3:00 pm Hardware for High Magnetic Fields
8:30 am Multinuclear (31P, 13C, 1H), Highfield Spectroscopy; Techniques and Applications
10:15 am BREAK
10:30 am R. GRUETTER
11:15 am PANEL DISCUSSION
11:45-1:00 pm LUNCH
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING of BRAIN FUNCTION MARCH 8 - 9, 1996
1:00 pm Welcome and Introduction to fMRI K. UGURBIL
1:35 pm Imaging Strategies for fMRI G. GLOVER
2:10 pm Contrast Mechanisms and Contrast-to-Noise in fMRI X. HU
2:45 pm BREAK (15 minutes)
3:00-5:20 pm BOLD Mechanisms, Perfusion and Vascular Measurements, Perfusion based fMRI
7:00 pm DINNER
8:00 pm DINNER TALK - "Brain Mechanisms of Motor Cognitive Processes" APOSTOLOS GEORGOPOULOS
8:15 am MR Spectroscopy and Imaging in Brain Function R.G. SHULMAN
8:50 am Basal Signal fluctuations in fMRI J. HYDE
9:25 am Motion Correction, Image Processing and Data Analysis; Fuzzy Clustering, Principle Component Analysis, Singular Value Decomposition
10:35 am BREAK (15 minutes)
10:50 am Motion Correction, Image Processing and Data Analysis; Fuzzy Clustering, Principle Component Analysis, Singular Value Decomposition - (CONTINUED)
12:00-1:00 pm LUNCH
1:00 pm fMRI APPLICATIONS
2:30 pm BREAK
3:00 pm
3:45 pm B. ROSEN
4:20 pm General Question and Answer Session
5:00 pm Closing Remarks
8:30am-5:00pm Demonstration and Hands-on Practice of