Instructor
Sonia Pujol, Ph.D.

Course Description
Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DT-MRI) measures in-vivo the anisotropic diffusion of water molecules in tissues. The study of the displacement distribution through advanced image processing techniques provides access to the microstructure, organization and connectivity of brain white matter. This course covers the different stages of DT-MRI analysis, from data loading and tensor calculation to streamline tractography.

Course Material
This course includes hands-on sessions using 3DSlicer, an open-source software for research in medical imaging analysis. Download the executable Slicer2.6 Linux x86, and the dwi dataset.

Course Report
The course report is a series of exercises based on the DT-MRI case study presented in the class.
Due date: November 20, 2006.