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Events Archive

Seventh TORTOISE Hands-On Course

Please install TORTOISE v3.1.1 (both the TORTOISE version specific for your operating system and the universal DIFFCALC_V3.1.1 module).

ATTENTION: The updated v3.1.1 version of TORTOISE can be found in the Software tab, and the data files are found in the Sample Data tab.

Note to MAC users: DIFFCALC requires XQuartz to be installed beforehand, however, has compatibility problems with XQuartz version 2.7.10 and above. Therefore, either install an earlier version of XQuartz, or install the latest version and follow the XQuartz installation for AFNI at: https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/doc/htmldoc/background_install/install_instructs/steps_mac.html

For additional questions, please email Okan Irfanoglu.

Monday, March 12^th, 2018

NIH campus, Natcher Building 45, room F1/F2
Kindly Hosted by the AFNI Bootcamp
Registration is open
Please click on the following link to register: https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/community/board/read.php?1,157122,157122#msg-157122

TORTOISE Course Agenda

8:20 am – 8:30 am

Introduction to Diffusion
Speaker: Paul Taylor

8:30 am - 8:50 am

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Acquisition tips and tricks
Speaker: Joelle Sarlls

8:50 am - 9:50 am

General Considerations on the Diffusion Processing Pipeline

The advantages of a good processing Pipeline
Concept of Artifacts and Artifacts Remediation
Diffusion Consequences of EPI Distortions

Speaker: Carlo Pierpaoli

9:50 am - 9:55 am

Questions

9:55 am - 10:10 am

Break

10:10 am - 10:30 am

Preparing data for TORTOISE usage

Reorientation of anatomical reference
Preprocessing QC

Speaker: Amritha Nayak

10:30 am - 11:40 pm

DIFFPREP & DRBUDDI
Speaker: M. Okan Irfanoglu

11:40 am - 12:00 am

Quality Assessment of post processed data
Speaker: Amritha Nayak

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 am - 1:30 pm

Overview of DIFFCALC
Speaker: Carlo Pierpaoli

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Overview of DRTAMAS
Speaker: M. Okan Irfanoglu

1:45 pm - 3.10 pm
(with minibreak)

Introduction to FATCAT
Speaker: Paul Taylor

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm
(with minibreak)

FATCAT hands-on (with AFNI and SUMA)
Speaker: Paul Taylor

Map of NIH Campus

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Walking Directions from Visitors Center

Diffusion Bootcamp is in Bldg 45 Room F1/F2.