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Each year we are pleased to be able to offer a two week intensive summer program on advanced topics in neuroimaging. The purpose of this course is to provide a solid foundation in state-of-the-art magnetic resonance neuroimaging methods. The course covers all aspects of MRI-based neuroimaging data acquisition, experimental design, and data analysis. In addition, students will interact closely with these lecturers in hands-on laboratory exercises and data analysis projects.

Responding to comments in prior years, we have increased the number of labs and peppered them throughout the day.

Our program is targeted to investigators with significant experience in neuroimaging who are eager to gain more tools and knowledge to apply to their work. This year we once again will have an extraordinary faculty of internationally known experts.

The (Video) for any lecture links to a recorded video. You can watch recorded the summer programs for prior years at our Archive Link web site.

Thanks to the generosity of the United States National Institutes of Health we are able to offer the course without tuition and are able to cover the costs of lodging for students form outside of the LA area. The program is open to applicants worldwide (though we are unable cover costs of travel). We are able to admit about 35 students each year.

The course will feature hands-on laboratory sections in neuroanatomy and image analysis, demonstrations of EEG-fMRI and an opportunity to design experiments and collect data at the UCLA Center for Cognitive Neuroscience imaging laboratory.

The lectures are available live at http://ctrl.ucla.edu/video/nitp/.
A chat page, allowing you to post questions in real time, is available. To access this, go the CTRL link above, then click the YouTube button at the bottom right.

The course software (except MATLAB) can be downloaded from http://brainmapping.org/NITP/2016Data/VMInstructions.html

Can you recommend a good brain atlas?

Dr. Bookheimer recommends the Duvernoy, Mai and, of course, Talairach & Tournoux atlases.

Mark likes a variety of digital atlases including those included in fslview and in afni, as well as the convenient iPad atlases: 3DBrain and BrainView and, for $1.99, BrainTutor HD.

I'd like to learn more about Fourier math...

"Complex Amplitude" by Jo Anne Fordham, Mississippi, 2012

Here are some primers that Mark wrote:

• A primer on complex numbers.
• Some useful math

Can you suggest some good reading on MRI?

Mark is partial to the online MRI primer by Joseph Hornak, and to the eMRI course for basic material. Mark has a more in-depth MRI slide set that might be useful. Ask Mark if you seek more advanced reading.