Jekyll2023-11-24T17:13:52+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/feed.xmlSpinal Cord MRIThis website aims at bringing closer the spinal cord MRI community, which includes clinicians, physicists and computer scientists. It provides a forum, workshop announcements (including material), common MRI acquisition protocol and a list of software dedicated to spinal cord MRI analysis.SCT Course2023-11-20T00:00:00+00:002023-11-20T00:00:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2023/11/20/sct-course<p><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_sct_course.png" alt="Image SCT course" style="float: left; margin-right: 25px" /></p>
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<p>Course on the Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) software.</p>
<p>The general aim of this 2-day course is to learn how to analyse spinal cord quantitative MRI data. There will first be an introduction presenting the challenges/solutions of spinal cord MRI, followed by a general overview of the Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) and its applications in various diseases. Then, the course will dive into the various processes of spinal cord MRI analysis, from segmentation, to the registration to a template, to the extraction of quantitative metrics (diffusion MRI, magnetization transfer). We will also touch base on various “niche” applications, such as the quantification of compression in spinal cord injured patients, fMRI analysis, etc. We will also discuss “best practice” for running reproducible analyses using batch scripts, for processing multiple subjects at once, for doing quality control and manual corrections.</p>
<p><strong>This is a “hands-on” workshop</strong>: you will actively participate by running SCT commands at the same time as the presenters. So please make sure to have the latest version of SCT installed before the workshop.</p>
<h2 id="registration-and-pricing">Registration and pricing</h2>
<p>The workshop is <strong>free</strong> 🙂</p>
<p>👉 Please register <a href="https://forms.gle/oK4NrRgHPQB7EuGA8">here</a> so we have an idea about the number of attendees.</p>
<h2 id="how-to-connect">How to connect</h2>
<p>🎥 <a href="https://polymtl-ca.zoom.us/j/87975574519">Zoom link</a></p>
<p>Please note that the meeting will be recorded and uploaded on the SCT website.</p>
<p>🗒 <a href="https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVM0Q5dbY=/?share_link_id=203499920049">Miro board</a>. This board is used as a visual communication platform. If you have questions/ideas/suggestions to share, please contribute to the board (you will need to create an account and log in).</p>
<h4 id="support">Support</h4>
<p>If you are unable to connect to the meeting, or if you have any trouble installing SCT v6.1, please email sct_developers@googlegroups.com and one of SCT’s developers will be happy to help.</p>
<h2 id="agenda">Agenda</h2>
<p>This is a two-day workshop. <strong>Times are Eastern Time Zone (UTC-05:00)</strong>:</p>
<p><strong>November 20th</strong></p>
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<td>10:00</td>
<td>Welcome speech</td>
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<td>10:15</td>
<td>SCT course (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t40Fd0fS0SwWR5FU_GWKEvHkB9d96LVddLQW6L3QAx0">course material</a>)</td>
</tr>
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<td>12:00</td>
<td><em>Lunch Break</em></td>
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<td>12:30</td>
<td>Resume course</td>
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<td>14:00</td>
<td>Adjourn meeting</td>
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</tbody>
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<p><strong>November 21th</strong></p>
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<td>10:00</td>
<td>SCT course (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t40Fd0fS0SwWR5FU_GWKEvHkB9d96LVddLQW6L3QAx0">course material</a>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12:00</td>
<td><em>Lunch Break</em></td>
</tr>
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<td>12:30</td>
<td>Resume course</td>
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<td>13:00</td>
<td>Feedback from users, suggestions for new features</td>
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<td>14:00</td>
<td>Adjourn meeting</td>
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</tbody>
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<h2 id="minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</h2>
<p>To come.</p>
<h2 id="organizers">Organizers</h2>
<p><a href="https://github.com/orgs/spinalcordtoolbox/people">SCT team</a>.</p>Martinos Spinal Cord Workshop (hybrid)2023-11-14T00:00:00+00:002023-11-14T00:00:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2023/11/14/workshop<p><a href="https://www.ismrm.org"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/ISMRM_endorsed_logo.jpg" alt="ISMRM endorsed" style="margin: 10px; float: right; height: 160px;" /></a></p>
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<p><strong>Note</strong>: This workshop is scheduled to be held in a “hybrid” format. Some speakers will present in-person (at the Martinos Center) while others may present virtually. Attendees are welcomed to attend in-person or virtually. For detailed information about the schedule of the workshop (including which of the talks will be held in-person), please visit the <a href="https://education.martinos.org/home/martinos-spinal-cord-workshop/">Martinos Center</a> website.</p>
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<p>The Martinos Spinal Cord Workshop is designed for researchers and clinicians who are interested in using MRI to study the human spinal cord.
Imaging the spinal cord entails a number of complications compared to whole-brain imaging: the cord is a thin, flexible, 3-dimensional organ surrounded
by pulsating cerebrospinal fluid and a complex vertebral structure. We hope to spare you various pitfalls and failures based upon our many years of
experience in spinal cord imaging.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://education.martinos.org/home/martinos-spinal-cord-workshop/">Registration (Open)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="organizers">Organizers:</h3>
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<li>Robert Barry, PhD</li>
<li>Robert Savoy, PhD</li>
</ul>Martinos Spinal Cord Workshop (virtual)2021-11-15T00:00:00+00:002021-11-15T00:00:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2021/11/15/workshop<p><a href="https://www.ismrm.org"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/ISMRM_endorsed_logo.jpg" alt="ISMRM endorsed" style="margin: 10px; float: right; height: 160px;" /></a></p>
<p>The Martinos Spinal Cord Workshop is designed for researchers and clinicians who are interested in using MRI to study the human spinal cord. Imaging the spinal cord entails a number of complications compared to whole-brain imaging: the cord is a thin, flexible, 3-dimensional organ surrounded by pulsating cerebrospinal fluid and a complex vertebral structure. We hope to spare you various pitfalls and failures based upon our many years of experience in spinal cord imaging.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://education.martinos.org/home/martinos-spinal-cord-workshop/">Registration (Closed)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="organizers">Organizers:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Robert Barry, PhD</li>
<li>Robert Savoy, PhD</li>
</ul>7th Spinal Cord MRI Workshop2020-01-20T00:00:00+00:002020-01-20T00:00:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2020/01/20/workshop<p><a href="https://www.ismrm.org"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/ISMRM_endorsed_logo.jpg" alt="ISMRM endorsed" style="margin: 10px; float: right; height: 160px;" /></a></p>
<p>After the succesfull first edition of the workshop. We are glad to announce that we organise a new two days workshop in London at University College London.
As in the previous edition, the general aim of this workshop is to bring together spinal cord MRI researchers and
clinicians from around the world and discuss together and establish new collaborative solutions.</p>
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<li><a href="http://tiny.cc/6ynsdz">Registration (Open)</a></li>
<li><b>Fees:</b> Free! But please register because we have limited space.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="live-streaming">Live streaming</h3>
<p>For those who could not attend, the workshop and SCT course will be live streamed and recorded. You will need to install <a href="https://zoom.us/">Zoom</a>. The workshop will be streamed <a href="https://zoom.us/j/695903361">here</a>, and the SCT course will be streamed <a href="https://zoom.us/j/606682393">here</a>.</p>
<h3 id="recordings">Recordings</h3>
<p>Recordings of the full workshop is available <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5-Fnq9XpaW7hLYbQCZaxGAp_iuKUiql">here</a>. Recordings of the SCT course can be found <a href="https://youtu.be/whbtjYNtHko">here</a>.</p>
<h3 id="program">Program:</h3>
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<th>1st Day</th>
<th>Monday, 20th January 2020<br /> <a href="https://20bedfordway.com/how-to-find-us/">IoE Bedford Way (20) - Different room depending the session</a></th>
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<td>13:30 - 14:00</td>
<td><b>Welcome session - Room 642 breakdown 1 (6th floor)</b><br />Daniel Alexander (Director of Centre for Medical Image Computing)<br /><i>The Centre for Medical Image Computing</i><br /><br />Ferran Prados (Centre for Medical Image Computing - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Welcome to the Spinal Cord MRI workshop</i><br /><br />Emma Gray (MS Society - UK)<br /><i>The value of spinal cord imaging for MS Society UK</i><br /></td>
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<td>14:00 - 14:30</td>
<td>Coffee break</td>
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<td>14:30 - 16:30</td>
<td><b>Session 1 - Room 642 breakdown 1 (6th floor)</b><br />Julien Cohen-Adad (Polytechnique Montreal - Canada)<br /><i>Standardizing acquisition and processing of spinal cord MRI data</i><br /><br />Jalesh N. Panicker (Institute of Neurology - UCL - UK)<br /><i>The lumbosacral spinal cord</i><br /><br />Mark Horsfield (Xinapse Systems - UK )<br /><i>Spinal cord atrophy assessment using JIM</i><br /><br />Hugo Vrenken (VUMC - Amsterdam - Netherland)<br /><i>Upper cervical cord atrophy in MS</i><br /><br /></td>
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<td>16:30 - 17:00</td>
<td>Coffee break</td>
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<td>17:00 - 19:00</td>
<td><b>Session 2 - C3.09 Lecture Theatre (3rd floor)</b><br />John Ashburner (Institute of Neurology - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Extending SPM for analysing images of head and neck</i><br /><br />Ruud de Boer (Philips NL)<br /><i>Recent developments in accelerating and optimizing spine and spinal cord sequences</i><br /><br />Joe Yazhuo Kong (Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), University of Oxford - UK)<br /><i>Spinal cord fMRI: what we can do so far?</i><br /><br />Jon Stutters (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Data management lessons from a spinal cord study</i><br /><br /></td>
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<td>19:30</td>
<td><b>Social event / Dinner</b></td>
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</tbody>
</table>
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<th>2nd Day</th>
<th>Tuesday, 21st January 2020<br /><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/about/how-find-us">Bentham House 124 - Gideon Schreier Lecture Theatre</a></th>
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</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>09:00 - 11:00</td>
<td><b>Session 3</b><br />Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Spinal cord as part of the central nervous system: advances in brain and spine acquisition</i><br /><br />Gabriele de Luca (Oxford University, UK)<br /><i>The pathological architecture of the Multiple Sclerosis spinal cord</i><br /><br />Paola Valsasina (Milan, Italy)<br /><i>Quantitative MRI of the spinal cord in multiple sclerosis</i><br /><br />Rosanna Cortese (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Spinal cord involvement in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein associated disease</i><br /><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:00 - 11:30</td>
<td>Coffee break</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:30 - 13:30</td>
<td><b>Session 4</b><br />Olivier Vincent (Polytechnique Montreal - Canada)<br /><i>Generalizing deep learning segmentation across multiple MRI contrasts and centers</i><br /><br />Junqian Gordon Xu (Baylor College of Medicine - Houston - USA)<br /><i>A pilot two-center reproducibility study of quantitative cervical spinal cord MRI for clinical trials in progressive multiple sclerosis</i><br /><br />Govind Nair (National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke - USA)<br /><i>Assessing the role of spinal cord atrophy in neuroinflammatory diseases</i><br /><br />Frederik Barkhof (Centre for Medical Image Computing - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Spinal cord atrophy rates in randomised controled trials</i><br /><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13:30 - 14:00</td>
<td>Lunch - Venue TBC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14:00 - 18:00</td>
<td>Course on Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT). The course material is available <a href="https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0th8lcatyVPkM_W14zpjynr5g#SCT%5FCourse%5F20200121">here</a>. Please, bring your laptop and install SCT before coming to the course.<br /><b>Venue: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/51%C2%B031'26.8%22N+0%C2%B008'04.6%22W/@51.5239666,-0.1348339,17.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d51.5241!4d-0.1346?hl=en">Cruciform Building B404 - Lecture Theatre 2</a></b></td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<h3 id="minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</h3>
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<h3 id="organizers">Organizers:</h3>
<p>Ferran Prados, Frederik Barkhof, Daniel Alexander, Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott, Julien Cohen-Adad</p>
<h3 id="supported-by">Supported by:</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/ucl.gif" alt="University College London (UCL)" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a>
<a href="http://cmic.cs.ucl.ac.uk"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/cmic_logo.png" alt="Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC)" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/research/departments/neuroinflammation/research-themes/queen-square-multiple-sclerosis-centre-2"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/qsmsc_logo.jpg" alt="Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre (QSMSC)" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/healthcare-engineering/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/ihe_logo.jpg" alt="Institute of Healthcare Engineering (IHE)" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.mssociety.org.uk/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/msuk_logo.png" alt="Multiple Sclerosis Society UK" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a>
<a href="https://biospective.com/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_biospective.png" alt="Biospective" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.spinal-research.org/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_spinalresearch.gif" alt="Spinal Research" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.wingsforlife.com/en/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_wingsforlife.png" alt="Wings for Life" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.philips.co.uk/healthcare/solutions/magnetic-resonance"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/philips_logo.png" alt="Philips" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.healthcare.siemens.ca/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_siemens.png" alt="Siemens" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a></p>SCT Course2019-08-08T00:00:00+00:002019-08-08T00:00:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2019/08/08/workshop<h3 id="program">Program</h3>
<p>Course on the Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) software.</p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>13:20</td>
<td>Welcome speech - <em>Prof. Yaou Liu, TianTan Hospital, Beijing Medical University</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13:30</td>
<td>Introduction to Spinal Cord Toolbox - <em>Prof. Julien Cohen-Adad</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14:30</td>
<td>Clinical applications of spinal cord MRI - <em>Prof. Yaou Liu, TianTan Hospital, Beijing Medical University</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:00</td>
<td>Challenges and opportunities for spinal cord fMRI - <em>Prof. Yazhuo Kong, Pain Neuroimaging and Translational Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:30</td>
<td>Tea break</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:45</td>
<td>SCT course - <em>Prof. Julien Cohen-Adad</em></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 id="minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</h3>
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<h3 id="organizers">Organizers</h3>
<p>Yaou Liu, Joe Kong, Julien Cohen-Adad, Pain Neuroimaging and Translational Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Medical University TianTan Hospital, Beijing, China</p>Program6th Spinal Cord MRI Workshop2019-05-17T00:00:00+00:002019-05-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2019/05/17/workshop<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/2s8eatror3x3mj1/spinalcordmriworkshop2019.pdf?dl=0">Flyer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://forms.gle/eBmdxRqTYSF8f4ou5">Registration</a></li>
<li>Venue: Université de Montréal, Bombardier building, Room 1035
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<li>Address: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Universit%C3%A9+de+Montr%C3%A9al+-+Pavillon+J.-Armand-Bombardier/@45.5034285,-73.6152718,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cc9198cba864891:0x4921de9578afa103!8m2!3d45.5034248!4d-73.6130831">5155, chemin de la rampe, Montreal, QC, H3S 5G4</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/2019-05-17-workshop/plancampus700px_en.png">How to get there</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="program">Program</h3>
<p>The general purpose of this workshop is to bring together spinal cord MRI researchers and
clinicians from around the world, discuss the technical issues and the new challenges to
overcome over the next years related to spinal MRI acquisition and processing, and
come up with collaborative solutions.</p>
<p>This year’s workshop will focus on presenting results of the <a href="http://www.spinalcordmri.org/protocols">Spinal Cord Generic MRI Protocol</a>, for which ~35 sites worldwide participated in a publicly-available database of high-quality quantitative MRI data.</p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>09:30</td>
<td>Introduction</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>09:45</td>
<td>Power pitch (3-min presentation of spinal cord related ISMRM abstract)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10:30</td>
<td>Results of the generic protocol (part 1)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:00</td>
<td><em>Coffee break + pastries</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:15</td>
<td>Results of the generic protocol (part 2)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12:00</td>
<td>General discussion: What’s next on the spinal cord MRI horizon?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12:30</td>
<td><em>Complimentary lunch</em></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 id="live-broadcasting">Live Broadcasting</h3>
<p>For those who could not attend the meeting, it was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPU1dWUduY">broadcasted live and recorded</a>.</p>
<h3 id="minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</h3>
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<h3 id="organizers">Organizers</h3>
<p>Julien Cohen-Adad, Alexandru Foias</p>
<h3 id="supported-by">Supported by</h3>
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<p><a href="https://www.polymtl.ca/en"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_polytechnique.png" alt="Polytechnique Montreal" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.healthcare.siemens.ca/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_siemens.png" alt="Siemens" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.gehealthcare.com"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_ge.png" alt="GE" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://biospective.com/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_biospective.png" alt="Biospective" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_rbiq.gif" alt="RBIQ/QBIN" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.spinal-research.org/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_spinalresearch.gif" alt="Spinal Research" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.wingsforlife.com/en/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/logo_wingsforlife.png" alt="Wings for Life" style="left; margin-right: 20px; width: 147px;" /></a></p>Flyer Registration Venue: Université de Montréal, Bombardier building, Room 1035 Address: 5155, chemin de la rampe, Montreal, QC, H3S 5G4 How to get thereSpinal Cord MRI Workshop@UCL2019-01-21T00:00:00+00:002019-01-21T00:00:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2019/01/21/workshop<p>Two days workshop in London at University College London. As in other editions,
the general aim of this workshop is to bring together spinal cord MRI researchers and
clinicians from around the world, discuss the technical issues and the new challenges to
overcome over the next years related to acquisition and processing of data and
come up with collaborative solutions.</p>
<ul>
<li>Registration (Closed)</li>
<li><b>Fees:</b> Free! But please register because we have limited space.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="program">Program:</h3>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>1st Day</th>
<th>Monday, 21st January 2019<br /><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/galton-lt">Gaton Lecture Theatre (Torrington Place)</a></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>13:00 - 13:30</td>
<td><b>Welcome session</b><br />Ferran Prados (Centre for Medical Image Computing - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Welcome to the Spinal Cord MRI workshop</i><br /><br />Rebecca Shipley (Director of UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering)<br /><i>The Institute of Healthcare Engineering</i><br /><br />Daniel Alexander (Director of Centre for Medical Image Computing)<br /><i>The Centre for Medical Image Computing</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13:30 - 15:30</td>
<td><b>Session 1</b><br />Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK)<br /><i>What has not been presented in spinal cord MRI</i><br /><br />Frederik Barkhof (Centre for Medical Image Computing - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Conventional MRI findings in MS and other disorders</i><br /><br />Johanna Vannesjo (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences - Oxford - UK)<br /><i>Magnetic field stability and homogeneity in spinal cord imaging</i><br /><br />Brian Carlin (<a href="https://www.aspire.org.uk/">Aspire UK</a>)<br /><i>Aspire – practical solutions supporting spinal cord injured people from injury to independence</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:30 - 16:00</td>
<td>Coffee break</td>
</tr>
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<td>16:00 - 18:00</td>
<td><b>Session 2</b><br />Elise Bannier (VisAGeS - Université de Rennes - France) <br /><i>Multi-center (mono-vendor) longitudinal conventional and quantitative spinal cord MRI at 3 Tesla</i><br /><br />Roland Henry (University of California San Francisco - USA) <br /><i>Grey matter areas in relapsing and progressive MS</i><br /><br />Klaus Schmierer (The Blizard Institute - Queen Mary University of London - UK)<br /><i>Latest advances in spinal cord pathology and pathology/MRI correlations</i><br /><br />Torben Schneider (<a href="https://www.philips.co.uk/">Philips UK</a>) <br /><i>New sequences for fast and reliable spinal cord MRI</i></td>
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<td>19:30</td>
<td><b>Social event / Dinner</b></td>
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<th>2nd Day</th>
<th>Tuesday, 22nd January 2019<br /><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cnr/docs/nhnninfo/QSmap">Gilliatt Lecture Theatre - Queen Square House - Queen Square</a></th>
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<td>09:00 - 11:00</td>
<td><b>Session 3</b><br />Virginie Callot (Aix-Marseille Université - France) <br /><i>Multi-parametric and quantitative spinal cord MRI at 7 Tesla</i><br /><br />Julien Cohen-Adad (Polytechnique Montreal - Canada)<br /><i><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/neuropoly/20190122cohenadadscmriworkshop">Standardizing acquisition and processing of spinal cord MRI data</a></i><br /><br />Seth Smith (Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science - USA) <br /><i>Quantitative MRI in Spinal Cord Disease. Scope, Progress, and Application(s)</i><br /><br />Mark Bacon (<a href="https://www.spinal-research.org/">Spinal research - UK</a>)<br /><i>What would funders like to “see” in imaging?</i></td>
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<td>11:00 - 11:30</td>
<td>Coffee break</td>
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<td>11:30 - 13:30</td>
<td><b>Session 4</b><br />Marcello Moccia (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK) <br /><i>Improving longitudinal spinal cord atrophy measurements for clinical trials in multiple sclerosis by using the Generalised Boundary Shift Integral</i><br /><br />Marco Battiston (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK) <br /><i>Towards in vivo g-ratio mapping in the spinal cord with a clinically feasible protocol</i><br /><br />Rebecca Samson (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Investigation of DTI parameters in the corticospinal tract: from cervical cord to motor cortex</i><br /><br />Bhavana Solanky (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Associations between tissue sodium concentration, age and cross-sectional area in the healthy spinal cord</i><br /><br />Marios Yiannakas (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Structural and quantitative MRI assessment of the neurologically intact lower spinal cord and lumbar plexus</i><br /><br />Francesco Grussu (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Insight on spinal cord microstructure from time-dependent diffusion</i><br /><br />Ferran Prados (Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre - UCL - UK)<br /><i>Workshop closing remarks</i><br /></td>
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<td>13:30 - 14:30</td>
<td>Lunch - Venue TBC</td>
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<td>14:30 - 18:00</td>
<td>Course on <a href="https://github.com/neuropoly/spinalcordtoolbox">Spinal Cord Toolbox</a> (please, bring your own laptop and data)<br /><b>Venue: <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/malet-place-engineering-building">Malet Place Engineering Building 1.19</a></b></td>
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<p><i>The title of the presentations are provisional and might differ from the final title.</i></p>
<h3 id="organizers">Organizers:</h3>
<p>Ferran Prados, Frederik Barkhof, Daniel Alexander, Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott, Julien Cohen-Adad</p>
<h3 id="supported-by">Supported by:</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/ucl.gif" alt="University College London (UCL)" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a>
<a href="http://cmic.cs.ucl.ac.uk"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/cmic_logo.png" alt="Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC)" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/research/departments/neuroinflammation/research-themes/queen-square-multiple-sclerosis-centre-2"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/qsmsc_logo.jpg" alt="Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre (QSMSC)" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/healthcare-engineering/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/ihe_logo.jpg" alt="Institute of Healthcare Engineering (IHE)" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.mssociety.org.uk/"><img src="https://www.spinalcordmri.org/assets/msuk_logo.png" alt="Multiple Sclerosis Society UK" style="left; margin-right: 20px; height: 60px;" /></a></p>Two days workshop in London at University College London. As in other editions, the general aim of this workshop is to bring together spinal cord MRI researchers and clinicians from around the world, discuss the technical issues and the new challenges to overcome over the next years related to acquisition and processing of data and come up with collaborative solutions.5th Spinal Cord MRI Workshop2018-06-22T09:30:00+00:002018-06-22T09:30:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2018/06/22/workshop<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7iiup3x80pwpob/spinalcordmriworkshop2018.pdf?dl=0">Flyer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://goo.gl/p277Rh">Registration (closed)</a></li>
<li><a href="#minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="program">Program</h3>
<p>For this year’s workshop, we have organized a challenge: the goal is to come up with the best acquisition sequence & parameters for visualizing the spinal cord gray matter on 3T and/or 7T systems. This challenge will result in a consensus publication and open-access MRI protocols. More details <a href="https://goo.gl/4YZTJd">here</a>.</p>
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<td>09:30</td>
<td>Introduction</td>
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<td>09:45</td>
<td>Results of the consensus protocol</td>
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<td>10:30</td>
<td>Power pitch (3-min presentation of spinal cord related abstract)</td>
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<td>11:00</td>
<td><em>Coffee break + pastries</em></td>
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<td>11:30</td>
<td><a href="https://goo.gl/4YZTJd">Challenge: visualizing the spinal cord gray matter</a></td>
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<td>12:30</td>
<td>General discussion</td>
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<td>13:30</td>
<td><em>Complimentary lunch</em></td>
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<td>14:00</td>
<td>Course on the <a href="https://github.com/neuropoly/spinalcordtoolbox">Spinal Cord Toolbox</a> (bring your laptop and data)</td>
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<td>17:30</td>
<td>Social event with the “Axon diameter mapping by diffusion MRI – workshop”</td>
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<h3 id="minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</h3>
<iframe src="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/DkUGjvk34tGohV" width="800" height="594" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen=""> </iframe>Flyer Registration (closed) Minutes of the meeting4th Spinal Cord MRI Workshop2017-04-28T00:00:00+00:002017-04-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2017/04/28/workshop<ul>
<li><a href="https://goo.gl/ltJdPS">Flyer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/iythnAeVThmaqxfB2">Registration (closed)</a></li>
<li><a href="#minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="program">Program</h3>
<p>The main focus of this workshop was to come up with a <strong>consensus acquisition protocol for the spinal cord across vendors</strong>. This resulted in a consensus publication and open-access MRI protocols downloadable here: <a href="https://osf.io/tt4z9/">https://osf.io/tt4z9/</a></p>
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<td>09:45</td>
<td>Introduction</td>
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<td>10:00</td>
<td>Power pitch (5min presentation of spinal cord related abstract)</td>
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<td>11:00</td>
<td><em>Coffee break + pastries</em></td>
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<td>11:30</td>
<td>Discussion on consensus MRI protocol</td>
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<td>13:00</td>
<td>General discussion</td>
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<td>13:30</td>
<td><em>Complimentary lunch</em></td>
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<td>14:00</td>
<td>Course on the <a href="https://github.com/neuropoly/spinalcordtoolbox">Spinal Cord Toolbox</a> (bring your laptop and data)</td>
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<td>17:30</td>
<td>Q&A around a beer</td>
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<h3 id="minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</h3>
<iframe src="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/DIfGRVquLaVPR3" width="800" height="594" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen=""> </iframe>Flyer Registration (closed) Minutes of the meeting3rd Spinal Cord MRI Workshop2016-05-13T00:00:00+00:002016-05-13T00:00:00+00:00https://www.spinalcordmri.org/2016/05/13/workshop<ul>
<li><a href="https://goo.gl/NhywD8">Flyer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/W17zqKMfpv">Registration (closed)</a></li>
<li><a href="#minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="program">Program</h3>
<p>For this year’s workshop, we organized a <a href="http://goo.gl/h4AVar">Grey matter segmentation challenge</a>, which resulted in a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28286318">NeuroImage publication</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Program</strong></p>
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<th>Seminar room (Level2)</th>
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<td>12:00</td>
<td>Introduction</td>
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<td>12:15</td>
<td><a href="http://goo.gl/h4AVar">Grey matter segmentation challenge: what’s there and what’s next?</a></td>
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<td>13:45</td>
<td><em>Coffee break + pastries</em></td>
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<td>11:30</td>
<td>Discussion on consensus MRI protocol</td>
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<td>13:00</td>
<td>General discussion</td>
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<td>14:00</td>
<td>Short talks on ISMRM’s “hot topics”</td>
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<td>14:30</td>
<td>General Discussion</td>
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<td>16:00</td>
<td><em>Coffee break + pastries</em></td>
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<td> </td>
<td><strong>Conference room (Level2)</strong></td>
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<td>16:15</td>
<td>Course on the <a href="https://github.com/neuropoly/spinalcordtoolbox">Spinal Cord Toolbox</a> (bring your laptop and data)</td>
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<h3 id="minutes-of-the-meeting">Minutes of the meeting</h3>
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