Advanced Clinical Neuroimaging Course

The Concept

A 2-day review of state-of-the-art clinical neuroimaging techniques, given by leading experts.
A small group, limited to 24 doctors, for maximal interaction.
Hands-on sessions, and interactive review of clinical cases.
A social program, to get in touch with colleagues from all over the world.
An online learning tool, to assess and update your knowledge after the course.

Next Edition

City	Country	Date
Brussels	Belgium	May 26-27, 2016

Topics

MRI Physics: What Clinicians Should Remember.
Spin dynamics, sequences, optimization of image quality, artifacts

Functional MRI: the Technique.
Paradigm design, stimulation system, fMRI analysis, resting-state fMRI

Imaging in Clinical Neurology.
Neuroimaging biomarkers, Stroke, Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease

Neuroimaging of Traumatic Brain Injury.
Mild TBI, concussion, severe TBI

Imaging of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness.
Coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, MCS, locked-in syndrome

Neuroimaging in Psychiatry.
Clinical, research, depression, OCD

fMRI: What's new ? Research, Non-medical and Funny Applications.
Mind reading, neurolaw, neuromarketing

MR Spectroscopy: the Technique.
STEAM, PRESS, single-voxel, multi-voxel, CSI, low TE, intermediate TE, high TE

Diffusion and Perfusion MRI: the Technique.
Diffusion MRI, DTI, advanced diffusion imaging, DCE perfusion, DSC perfusion

fMRI and DTI in Neurosurgical Planning.
Clinical cases, image-guided neurosurgery

Multimodal Imaging of Brain Tumors.
Clinical cases : fMRI, DTI, perfusion, spectroscopy, PET

Hands-on Training: Post-processing.
BrainMagix : fMRI module, DTI module, perfusion module, fusion, morphometry, segmentation

Future Developments of Advanced Brain Imaging.
Molecular imaging, optical imaging, MEG

Sample

Price

500 €

The price includes the registration to the course, the social program (2 lunches and 1 dinner), and the access to the online learning tool.

Audience

Neuroradiologists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, engineers, physicists.

Course Director

Dr. Laurent Hermoye

After graduating as an electrical engineer, doctor of medical sciences, and bachelor of business management, I founded Imagilys, a company specializing in advanced brain imaging, biomarkers and neurosurgical planning. Through collaborations with research teams at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Liege University's Coma Science group, I endeavor to bring the most advanced brain imaging techniques from bench to bedside. My efforts have resulted in multiple publications in medical journals and at international conferences, but also in a neuroimaging software, BrainMagix, which has been used on thousands of patients. Having served as a university professor for 10 years, I am now the organizer of Imagilys’ Advanced Clinical Neuroimaging Course, teaching advanced neuroimaging techniques to doctors from all around the world. Through continuing medical education at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), I am continually at the leading edge of the newest techniques.

Invited Lecturers

Vasileios Katsaros, MD, PhD, is a neuroradiologist at Athens Oncological Hospital and scientific associate at Athens University’s Department of Neurosurgery. He was trained at Freiburg University Hospital. He has more than 20 years of experience in the clinical imaging of brain diseases, with a special focus on multi-modal imaging of brain tumors.

Carol Di Perri, MD, is an Italian neurologist and neuroradiologist. She is a researcher at Liege University’s Coma Science Group, under the supervision of Prof. Steven Laureys. She specializes in the neuroimaging of patients with disorders of consciousness, and especially in the study of their brain’s connectivity, using resting-state fMRI.

About Imagilys

Imagilys develops and sells a neuroimaging software suite. One asset differentiates us from most of our competitors: we focus exclusively on the brain, whereas other companies sell generic whole-body workstations. BrainMagix is the result of 10 years of research and development. We help our customers, throughout the world, to diagnose and cure patients with severe neurological, neurosurgical, and psychiatric diseases. We help pharmaceutical companies and CROs to use the most advanced biomarkers for the discovery of promising drugs. We collaborate with experts at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins University. In addition, we benefit from the continuous support of the Brussels-Capital Region. Finally, we train neuroradiologists, physicians, engineers, and physicists several times a year on the most advanced neuroimaging techniques in the framework of our Advanced Clinical Neuroimaging Courses.