Training in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议继续每年8月在密歇根大学提供为期两周的功能性磁共振成像短期课程。本课程与一个学期的课程完全相同，但在方便的时间和紧凑的格式提供，很容易适应研究生，住院医生，博士后和教师的时间表。课程涵盖MRI和fMRI的物理、数据采集、实验设计问题的详细介绍，以及数据分析和解释的大量内容。学生将有机会设计一个实验，获取数据，并分析这些数据。建议的短期课程将向本科生和研究生，博士后研究员，教师和住院医生开放。通过提议的拨款，我们将邀请25名来自密歇根大学以外的与会者，由招生委员会在广泛招募申请人后选出。助学金将包括旅费和生活费，不包括课程学费。课程完成后会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，以评估参与者将课程内容整合到他们的研究议程中的能力。

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.