GCRC Supplement: Neuroimaging Training & Infrastructure

描述(由申请人提供)： 十年前，功能神经成像领域开始了一个前所未有的增长时期，这是由于功能磁共振成像与先前开发的成像技术和专业知识相结合的发展。从那时起，参与神经成像的机构数量迅速增长，随着临床研究和实践中日益复杂的应用程序的发展，这种扩张至今仍在继续。尽管出现了如此惊人的增长，但在功能成像的技术、应用和神经科学方面训练有素的内科科学家一直很短缺。MCW是少数几个已经达到跨学科环境的中心之一，具有足够的广度和深度，足以构成一流的功能神经成像培训计划。我们相信，MCW提供的设施、专业知识和培训经验的整体组合在领先的神经成像中心中是独一无二的。MCW致力于将这些资源提供给更广泛的科学和医疗保健社区，包括GCRC赞助的成像核心网络。我们的目标是为在这一令人兴奋和充满活力的领域培训临床研究人员提供全国性的资源。MCW GCRC拟议的神经成像培训和基础设施补充方案旨在通过提供高级课程和密集的实践教学来满足培训需求，重点是神经成像的理论和实践、支持功能磁共振技术的技术基础设施、神经成像研究的设计和实施、随后的神经成像数据的分析、显示和解释，以及这些技术在临床神经科学实践中的基本问题的应用。此外，参与这一培训计划的许多初级教员自己也将以前获得的神经科学专业知识领域与神经成像相结合，从而为临床科学家提供了一个无与伦比的机会，让他们“从导师那里以身作则”学习。最后，MCW继续走在功能磁共振成像技术发展的前沿。我们将应用这些知识来开发和维护临床研究所需的最佳功能磁共振基础设施，并作为其他神经成像机构的样板站点。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ten years ago, the field of functional neuroimaging began a period of unprecedented growth spurred by the development of fMRI in concert with previously developed imaging techniques and expertise. Since that time, the number of institutions involved in neuroimaging has grown apace and that expansion continues today as increasingly sophisticated applications develop in clinical research and practice. Despite this exceptional growth, there has been a shortage of physician scientists who are well trained in the technology, application and neuroscience of functional imaging. The MCW is one of a handful of centers that has attained an interdisciplinary milieu with sufficient breadth and depth to constitute a top-notch training program in functional neuroimaging. We believe that the total combination of facilities, expertise, and training experience available at MCW is unique among the leading centers for neuroimaging. MCW is committed to making these resources available to the greater scientific and health-care community, including the network of GCRC-sponsored Imaging Cores. Our goal is to provide a national resource for training clinical investigators in this exciting and dynamic field. The proposed Neuroimaging Training and Infrastructure supplement to the MCW GCRC is designed to address the training needs by offering advanced coursework and intensive hands-on instruction with an emphasis on the theory and practice of neuroimaging, the technological infrastructure supporting fMRI techniques, the design and implementation of neuroimaging studies, the subsequent analysis, display and interpretation of neuroimaging data, and the application of these techniques to fundamental problems in clinical neuroscience practice. In addition, many of the primary faculty involved with this training program have themselves blended previously acquired fields of neuroscience expertise with neuroimaging, thereby providing an unparalleled opportunity for clinician scientists to learn "by example from their mentors." Finally, MCW continues to be at the forefront of technological developments of fMRI. We will apply this knowledge to develop and maintain the optimal fMRI infrastructure required for clinical investigations and serve as a model site for other neuroimaging institutions.