Week 1. Basics of multimodal imaging and image processing. Functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Week 2. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging, tractography, mapping the brain's connectome.
Week 3. Neurosurgical planning with multimodal imaging
Week 4. Image guided therapies.
Week 5. Basics and clinical uses of MR spectroscopy.
Week 6. PET imaging. Test writing.
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Dear Students!
We inform you that the anticipated topics for the forthcoming lectures are the following. The time and titles are subject to change.
18. September: Opening lecture, „Brain in Motion”: Functional magnetic resonance imaging. Basics and clinical applications of fMRI.
25. September: Introduction to multimodal imaging. Overview. History of magnetic resonance imaging. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography.
02. October - no lecture
09. October: Imaging the biochemistry of the brain: in vivo MR spectroscopy and clinical applications.
16. October: High field MR imaging and MR microscopy. Computerized visualization techniques.
23. October - no lecture (National Holiday)
30. October: Neurosurgical planning using multimodal imaging. Virtual reality in neurosurgical planning. Image guided therapies.
6. November: Multimodal neuroimaging in nuclear medicine, SPECT-CT, PET-CT. Multimodal imaging in neurooncology.
How many lectures will we need to attend?
Just like all the elective courses, the attendance of all lectures is required. We have scheduled 6 occassions for the semester.
Will there be self-controls or exams?
It is obligatory to judge the knowledge of the attendees for all elective courses. A short and very easy test will be handed out during the last lecture. Don't worry, the basic knowledge of a 2-3rd year med. student plus the acquired material is far enough to get an excellent grade.
Am I eligible to attend the lectures?
Biophysics is a prerequisite for the course. It is advised that students interested in radiology, diagnostic imaging, neurology or neurosciences attend, but it is not required.
I missed a lecture. :( Do you have electronic learning materials?
The presentations are available on request, and further reading will be posted on this website.
How the course would help me out during my future carreer?
The course gives insight into new imaging techniqes that help to visualize, measure and understand the properties of the functioning human brain. This knowledge reaches further than the curriculum of diagnostic radiology.
Diffusion tensor tractography and imaging on WIKIPEDIA.
Scholarpedia description of brain connectivity unveiled with in vivo neuroimaging techniques.
Associate Prof. Dr. Ervin Berényi, M.D. Ph.D.
Dr. Berényi has received his PhD degree in 1999 after completing clinical medicine program in Pecs, Hungary and research fellowship in the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA. He is a qualified radiologist and neuroradiologist with special interest in state-of-the-art functional imaging techniques.He has been actively contributing to this field with 36 journal publications (impact factors: 62).
Dr. András Jakab, M.D., Ph.D, Assistant Lecturer
Dr. Jakab completed his PhD studies in 2012 in the field of clinical medicine (Doctoral School of Neuroscience). He has been affiliated with many international research groups and conducted a 1-year research project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETH). His efforts in biomedical imaging and image processing has already resulted in seven journal publications, impact factors 27.4.