Workshop on Diffusion weighted MRI
Time: Monday March 16, 14:30 – 17:00
Location: Auditorium 3+4 placed at the ground floor near the main entrance at Hvidovre Hospital
Homepage: www.drcmr.dk
Attendance is free of charge
Registration, please send a mail with name to timd (at) drcmr.dk

We hereby invite everybody who has an interest - or is just curious - to join this workshop at the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR). The workshop will cover cutting-edge methods within the field of diffusion weighted MRI.
Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is a technique that measures the restricted diffusion of water molecules within brain tissue. Although measurements are obtained at the macroscopic level (cubic millimetre range), DWI provides information about the microstructure of the tissue and enables the visualization of fibre tracts.
The program covers a wide range of topics. Martin Vestergaard Hansen (DRCMR) will demonstrate how diffusion MRI can be used to study brain maturation in children.  Henrik Lundell (DRCMR) will show how diffusion tensor imaging of post mortem tissue can provide highly detailed maps of spinal cord connectivity. Geoff Parker (UK) will present recent developments of tractography methods to visualise anatomical connectivity in the brain. The other presentations (Jimmy Lätt & Markus Nilsson, SE; Daniel Alexander, UK; Penny Hubbard, UK) will focus on the difficulties related to diffusion weighted MRI -  in particular how diffusion parameters need to be finely tuned -  in order to produce measures on the microstructure, relating to fibre density and axonal diameter.

Best regards,
Tim B. Dyrby

Workshop program
Auditorium 3+4 placed at the ground floor near the main entrance at Hvidovre Hospital
Monday March 16, 14:30 – 17:00

14:30 - 14:45    Diffusion tensor imaging of age-related development of cognitive functions in children using Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS)
By Martin Vestergaard Hansen, DRCMR, DK

14:50 - 15:05    Mapping spinal cord networks post mortem using DWI
By Henrik Lundell, DRCMR, DK

15:10 - 15:30    Recent tractography methods developments
By Geoff Parker, ISBE, UK

15:35 - 15:50    Investigating tissue microstructure using diffusion MRI: The role of high b-values and a varied diffusion time
By Jimmy Lätt & Markus Nilsson, Lund University, SE

15:55 - 16:15    Microstructure imaging with diffusion MRI
By Daniel Alexander, UCL, UK

16:20 - 16:40    Measuring microstructure in the human brain (and knowing you
are right!)
By Penny Hubbard, ISBE, UK

16:40 - 17:00    Open discussions