Training in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

描述(由申请者提供)：我们建议继续于每年8月在密歇根大学开设为期两周的功能磁共振成像短期课程。这门课程与整个学期的课程完全相同，但在方便的时间提供，形式紧凑，很容易适应研究生、住院医师、博士后和教师的时间表。课程包括磁共振成像和功能磁共振成像的物理学，数据采集的覆盖范围，与实验设计有关的问题的详细介绍，以及数据分析和解释的大量覆盖。学生将有机会设计实验、获取数据并分析这些数据。拟议的短期课程将向本科生和研究生、博士后研究员、教职员工和住院医师开放。通过拟议的拨款，我们将邀请密歇根大学以外的25名与会者，他们是由招生委员会在广泛招募申请者后挑选出来的。这笔补助金将包括旅费和生活费，课程不收学费。在课程完成后，立即对课程的有效性进行全面评估，并在8个月后进行评估，以评估学员将课程内容纳入其研究议程的情况。 公共卫生相关性：脑过程的功能磁共振成像是医疗和生物医学用途的日益重要的诊断和研究工具。作为一种研究工具，随着越来越多的人了解到大脑对认知、情感、社会和经济信息的处理，它的使用出现了爆炸性增长。通过一个方便的短期课程培训学生、住院医师、博士后研究员和教职员工正确使用功能磁共振成像，以适应他们繁忙的日程安排，将为扩大这一宝贵工具的使用所需的人力基础设施做出根本贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to continue to offer an annual two-week short course on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the University of Michigan in August of each year. This course is fully the same as a semester-length course, but is offered at a convenient time and in a compact format that readily fits into the schedules of graduate students, medical residents, post docs, and faculty. The curriculum covers the physics of MRI and fMRI, coverage of data acquisition, a detailed presentation of issues having to do with experimental design, and substantial coverage of data analysis and interpretation. Students will get the opportunity to design an experiment, acquire data, and analyze those data. The proposed short course will be open to undergraduate and graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty, and medical residents. Via the proposed grant, we shall invite 25 attendees from outside the University of Michigan, selected by an admissions committee after extensive recruitment of applicants. The grant will cover travel and subsistence, with no tuition for the course. There is a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of the course immediately after it is complete, as well as an evaluation 8 months later to assess how well attendees have been able to integrate the contents of the course into their research agendas. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of brain processes is an increasingly important diagnostic and research tool for medical and biomedical uses. As a research tool, its use has exploded as more and more is learned about the processing of cognitive and emotional and social and economic information by the brain. Training students, medical residents, post doctoral fellows, and faculty in the proper use of functional MRI via a convenient short course that can fit into their busy schedules will provide a fundamental contribution to the human infrastructure necessary to expand the use of this valuable tool.