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Guest Talk by Dr Alexander Leemans

Alexander Leemans is a physicist at Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht in The Netherlands. He is visiting Aarhus and will give a guest talk at CFIN.

Info about event

Time

Tuesday 17 June 2014,  at 09:00 - 10:30

Location

AUH, meeting room on 8th floor of building 10, Nørrebrogade 44, 8000 Aarhus C.

Organizer

CFIN / Sune Nørhøj Jespersen

Alexander Leemans:

"Diffusion MRI based structural brain connectivity: What, how, and why?"

Abstract:
"With its unique way of characterizing tissue microstructure, diffusion MRI (dMRI) has been used in numerous clinical and biomedical applications. In addition to an introduction to the basic concepts of dMRI, I will cover practical guidelines on quality and processing of dMRI data for subsequent analysis. Several considerations regarding dMRI limitations and data interpretation will also be presented.

For relevant background information, see for instance
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21469191 and
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22846632."


Bio:
"Alexander Leemans is a physicist who received his PhD in 2006 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Center (CUBRIC), Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. In 2009, he joined the Image Sciences Institute (ISI), University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, where he currently holds a tenured faculty position as Associate Professor. He heads the PROVIDI Lab and is the developer of ExploreDTI, which is a graphical toolbox for investigating diffusion MRI data."

ALL ARE WELCOME.