"SPM5 fMRI" CBU course 
 
Tues 27th Feb 2007
Lecture Theatre, CBU

09.00 - 09.45 		MRI Physics in a Nutshell       
                                    Christian Schwarzbauer
	T1, T2, T2*, BOLD contrast, structural MRI, functional MRI (EPI)
 
09.45 - 10.30		Biophysics of BOLD and common image artifacts
			Rhodri Cusack
	BOLD, susceptibility, fieldmaps, common artifacts...

10.30-11.00		BREAK

11.00 - 11.45	 	Spatial Preprocessing
    			Matthew Brett
    	realignment, normalisation, smoothing, segmenting
 
11.45 - 12.30		The GLM and Friends       
			Ian Nimmo-Smith
    	OLS, ML, EM, ReML, Bayes, not to mention fixed & 
	random effects, and nonsphericity
 
12.30 - 13.30		LUNCH BREAK

13.30 - 14.15		Convolution Models           
			Rik Henson
    	HRF, temporal basis functions, highpass filter, autocorrelation, nonlinearity
 
14.15 - 15.00		Statistical Inference     
			Matthew Brett
    	Thresholding: RFT, FDR, SNPM

15.00 - 15.45		Experimental design and optimisation
			Rik Henson
	Factorial designs, conjunctions, blocked/randomised, efficiency

15.45 - 16.00		BREAK

16.00 - 16.45		Effective connectivity       
			James Rowe
	Three methods: PPI, SEM, DCM

16.45 - 17.30		Batching                     
			Rhodri Cusack
    	Batching with AA