ISMRM Diffusion Study Group Workshop 2016: Preliminary Program

DAY 1: Monday, September 12, 2016

Diffusion Bootcamp: Morning Session

• Basics of measuring diffusion. Tim Dyrby, Ph.D.
• Relaxation and exchange. Samo Lasic, Ph.D.
• Modeling 1 — from DTI to HARDI. Maxime Descoteaux, Ph.D.
• Modeling 2 — Quantitation of Microstructure. Gary Zhang. Ph.D.

Diffusion Bootcamp: Afternoon Session

• Processing pipelines. Carlo Pierpaoli, Ph.D.
• Analysis pipelines. Alex Leemans, Ph.D.
• Anatomy 1 — Neuroanatomy. Giorgio Innocenti, Ph.D.
• Anatomy 2 — Tractographic Anatomy. Bram Stieltjes, M.D.
• Clinical translation. Christopher Hess, M.D., Ph.D.

DAY 2: Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Session 1: Physics & Acquisition

• What is your sequence? A tour of the body in many acquisition strategies. Karla Miller, Ph.D.
• MRI physics meets diffusion modeling. Chunlei Lu, Ph.D.
• Clever diffusion gradient design. Evren Ozarslan, Ph.D.

Session 2: Microstructure and Modeling

• Basics of diffusion modeling: model free vs compartment models. Daniel Alexander, Ph.D.
• Diffusion tensor distributions and fat b-tensors. Markus Nilsson, Ph.D.
• G-ratio imaging. Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D.

Special Lecture:

• Breaking barriers with diffusion. Denis LeBihan, M.D., Ph.D.

DAY 3: Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Session 3: Tractography

• What Information is gained or lost from DTI to HARDI to DSI tractography? Flavio Dell’Aqua PhD
• Extracting information from streamlines: track density, track length & beyond. Fernando Calamante, Ph.D.
• White matter structure: Sheet happens! Van Wedeen, Ph.D.

Session 4: Connectivity

• Quantifying structural connectivity — tractometry. Alessandro Daducci, Ph.D.
• The devil is in the details: what’s in a connectivity matrix? Stam Sotiropoulos
• Exploring links between structural and functional connectivity. Alfred Anwander, Ph.D.

DAY 4: Thursday, September 15, 2016

Session 5: Validation

• Validation of microstructural modeling in spinal cord imaging. Julien Cohen-Adad, Ph.D.
• When tracks are actually tracts — validating tractography using multiple modalities. Adam Anderson, PhD
• Validating the human connectome. David van Essen, Ph.D.

Session 6: Clinical Applications

• Cardiac & muscle. Martijn Froeling, Ph.D.
• Oncologic applications. Eric Sigmund, Ph.D.
• Neurologic Applications. Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott, Ph.D.

DAY 5: Friday, September 16, 2016

Session 7: Diffusion — Strategic Directions

• Recap and Reflections on the 2016 Workshop. Workshop Organizing Committee
• Diffusion research: hindered or restricted? Peter Basser, Ph.D.
• Where do we go from here? Derek Jones, Ph.D.