Professor Lawrence Wald will present “New Directions for Brain MRI Hardware and Acquisition” as part of the 2014 VBIC Network Meeting.

Date: 17 October 2014

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building 

Time: 8:30am for 9:00am start

Program

8:30am Registration

9:00am Dr Henry De Aizpurua (Welcome and Introduction)

VBIC Node Updates

9:05am Dr William Woods (Swinburne University of Technology)

9:20am Professor Gary Egan  (Monash University)

9:35am Dr Alan Connelly (The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health) 

9:50am Dr Brad Moffat (University of Melbourne, Parkville)

10:05am Dr Marjorie Milne  (University of Melbourne, Werribee)

10:30 am Tea break (Provided)

Improvements in brain imaging 

10:45amProfessor Lawrence Wald(Harvard University): New directions for brain MRI hardware and acquisition

12:00pm Dr Parnesh Raniga (Monash University) : Imaging workflow in a multi- modal imaging environment

12:15pm Professor David Liley (Swinburne University of Technology): Simultaneous EEG-MEG for non-lesional focal epilepsy surgery

12:30pm Dr Sam Long  (University of Melbourne) : Application of MR spectroscopy and tractography to establish a canine brain atlas

12:45pm Dr David Raffelt (The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health): Fixel- based morphometry: Whole- brain white matter morphometry in the presence of crossing fibres

1:15pm Lunch (provided)