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MSc in Advanced Neuroimaging - Autumn Term 2013

This is not the current timetable.

Please note, in this page links to past handouts and references are being provided as a back-up only to the 2014/2015 timetable.

Unless otherwise stated, all ANI lectures take place in the 1st Floor Seminar Room, 7 Queen Square (SR7) and all ANI workshops take place in the Cluster Room, 7 Queen Square (CR7).

QUICK LINKS: INDUCTION WEEK WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6 WEEK 7 WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10 WEEK 11


Please note - To enable seamless redirection when accessing handouts and references via these timetable links, it is advisable to have a new tab already logged in to Moodle. 

Induction Week

Monday 23rd September

     
9.00 - 10.00 Completion of enrolment process Lecture Theatre, Basement, 33 Queen Square  
10.00 - 10.15 Welcome - Prof Duncan, Clinical Director, NHNN Lecture Theatre, Basement, 33 Queen Square  
10.15 - 11.00 Welcome and Introduction by Education Unit including Virtual Tour of Queen Square Lecture Theatre, Basement, 33 Queen Square  
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break Foyer, 33 Queen Square  
11.30 - 11.45 Welcome - PhD Representatives Lecture Theatre, Basement, 33 Queen Square  
11.45 - 12.00 Welcome - Library Staff Lecture Theatre, Basement, 33 Queen Square  
12.00 - 12.15 Welcome - Computing Unit Lecture Theatre, Basement, 33 Queen Square  
12.15 - 12.30 Welcome - Security Officer Lecture Theatre, Basement, 33 Queen Square  
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Break Foyer, 33 Queen Square  
13.30 - 15.00 Interactive Session with Course Directors/Education Unit: "Learning and teaching in the UK" Lecture Theatre, Basement, 33 Queen Square  

Tuesday 24th September

     
ALL DAY No scheduled appointments - Students are encouraged to complete personal administrative arrangements (i.e. bank accounts/police registration/accommodation) during this period.    

Wednesday 25th September

     
8.30 - 10.30
Important guidelines for getting your MSc - Dr Selai Gilliatt Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, IoN  

Thursday 26th September

     
11.30 - 12.00
Tour of Queen Square
   
12.00 - 13.30
‘Getting your bearings’ - Dr Adam Liston & Prof Tarek Yousry, Course Directors Fourth Floor, 12 Queen Square  
14.00 - 14.30
Visit to Queen Square Medical Library First Floor, 23 Queen Square  
16.30 - 17.30
Induction for new Masters/Diploma students, followed by a student social, on the main campus. Lower Refectory in the Wilkins Building at central UCL.  

Friday 27th September

     
9.45
FREE Walking tour entitled ‘Dead Famous’ about the lives, illnesses and deaths of (in)famous Bloomsbury residents, led by Dr Richard Barnett, Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellow and author of Medical London. The walk will last approximately 2 ½ hours and take in the sights of London on foot; an excellent introduction to the city. Please meet outside 7 Queen Square  

Module 1:

Week 1

Tuesday 1st October


   
9.30 - 10.20
(P1MO01) Module Overview - Neuroimaging, Physics, Maths & Computers John Thornton Handout
11.00 - 11.50
(P1CM01) Vectors John Thornton Handout
12.15 - 13.05
(P1CP01) Properties of Waves
Chris Sinclair Handout
References
14.00 - 14.50
(P1CP02) Atoms & Light Chris Sinclair Handout
References
15.15 - 16.05
(P1CIT01) Electronic Representation of Data Mark White

Handout

Worksheet

References

16.15 - 17.05
(LPRT01) RT01 - Science & The Media Adam Liston
Handout
Own... time
(P1S01) Study Design (Biostatistics Web Lectures 1 - 3)
Online
 

Week 2

Tuesday 8th October

     
10.00 - 10.50
(P1CM02) Exponential Changes
John Thornton
Handout
11.00 - 11.50
(P1CM03) Periodic Functions & Phase
Adam Liston
Handout
Worksheet
12.15 - 13.05
(P1CP03) The Nucleus & Radiation
Chris Sinclair
Handout
References
15.00 - 16.00
(LPRTL1) RTL1 - Library Skills: Search Skills
Kate Brunskill - Bedford Way 316
 
16.00 - 17.00
(LPRTL1) RTL1 - Library Skills: Search Skills Kate Brunskill - Bedford Way 316  

Thursday 10th October

     
10.00 - 10.50
(C1N01) The Cortex I
Tarek Yousry
Handout
11.00 - 11.50
(C1N01) The Cortex II
Tarek Yousry See handout above
12.15 - 13.05
(C1N02) Basal Ganglia
Tarek Yousry Handout
14.00 - 14.50
(C1N05) Embryology & Anatomy of the Orbit
Katherine Miszkiel
**CANCELLED**
TO BE RESCHEDULED
15.15 - 16.05
(C1N06) Embryology of the Brain and Spine
Dawn Saunders

**CANCELLED ** Rescheduled on

21st November

16.15 - 17.05
(C1N07) Malformations of the Brain and Spine
Dawn Saunders
**CANCELLED ** To be rescheduled

Week 3

Tuesday 15th October

     
9.00 - 9.50
(P1CIT03) Core IT - Q&A 1
Mark White
 
10.00 - 10.50
(P1MLW1)Workshop: Matlab 1 - Phase & Vectors
Adam Liston / Vladimir Litvak
Worksheet
11.00 - 11.50
(P1MLW1)Workshop: Matlab 1 - Phase & Vectors
Adam Liston / Vladimir Litvak
 
12.15 - 13.05
(LPRT02) RT02 - Critical Appraisal I
Adam Liston
Handout
14.00 - 14.50
(P1CM04) Complex Numbers
Adam Liston
Handout
15.15 - 16.05
(P1CP04) Diagnostic X-rays, CT and X-ray Angiography
Konstantin Lozhkin
Handouts distributed in class
16.15 - 17.05
(P1CM05) How Matrices Can Represent Images
John Thornton
Handout

Thursday 17th October

     
9.00 - 9.50
(C1NW1) Workshop: Identifying Anatomic Structures - Cortex, Deep Nuclei
Tarek Yousry  
10.00 - 10.50
(C1NW1) Workshop: Identifying Anatomic Structures - Cortex, Deep Nuclei
Tarek Yousry  
12.15 - 13.05
(C1PF01) Vestibular System
Ros Davies
Handout
14.00 - 14.50
(C1PF02) Somatosensory System
Alexander Kraskov
Handout
15.15 - 16.05
(C1PF03) Auditory System
Maria Chait
RESCHEDULED on 24th October
16.15 - 17.05
(C1PF04) Visual System
Gordon Plant
Handout

Friday 18th October

     
14.00 - 14.50
(C1N04) Skull Base & Spine
Peter Cowley - SR7

RESCHEDULED on 29th November

Week 4

Tuesday 22nd October

     
9.00 - 9.50
(P1SW1) Workshop: Statistics 1
(Group 1)
Khadija Rantell  
10.00 - 10.50
(P1SW1) Workshop: Statistics 1
(Group 1)
Khadija Rantell  
11.00 - 11.50
(LPRT03) RT03 - Critical Appraisal II
Adam Liston
Handout
12:15 – 13:05 (P1CIT02) Processing and Compressing Images Mark White Handout
Worksheet
References
14.00 - 14.50
(P1CM06) Problems class
John Thornton / Adam Liston
 
15.00 - 17.00
(LPRTL2) RTL2 - Library Skills: EndNote
Kate Brunskill - Bedford Way G11
 
Own time (P1S02) Estimation, Hypothesis Testing & Continuous Data I (Biostatistics Web Lectures 4 - 6)
Online
 

Thursday 24th October

     
9.00 - 9.50
(C1PF03) Auditory System
Maria Chait - Seminar Room
Handout
10.00 - 10.50
(C1PF05) Circulation
Martin Brown
Handout
11.00 -11.50
(C1NW2) Lecture & Workshop: Identifying Vasculature
Adam Rennie

CANCELLED

Rescheduled on

29th November

12.15 - 13.05
(C1NW2) Lecture & Workshop: Identifying Vasculature
Adam Rennie

CANCELLED

Rescheduled on

29th November

14.00 - 14.50
(C1N03) Cranial Nerves
Indran Davagnanam Handout
15.15 - 16.05
(C1NW4) Workshop: Identifying Anatomic Structures - Skull Base, Cranial Nerves, Sella
Anant Krishnan
 
16.15 - 17.05
 (C1NW4) Workshop: Identifying Anatomic Structures - Skull Base, Cranial Nerves, Sella
Anant Krishnan  

Week 5

Tuesday 29th October

     
10.00 - 10.50
(P1MLW2) Workshop: Matlab 2 - Matrices & Complex Numbers
Adam Liston / Vladimir Litvak
Worksheet
11.00 - 11.50
(P1MLW2) Workshop: Matlab 2 - Matrices & Complex Numbers
Adam Liston / Vladimir Litvak
 
12.15 - 13.05
(P1PIF01) Medical Image Restoration & Analogue to Digital Conversion
Romon Rodionov
Handout
References
14.00 - 14.50
(P1CM07) The Fourier Transform & 1-D Signals
Adam Liston
Handout
References
15.00 - 15.50
(P1CM08) The Fourier Transform Applied to Imaging
John Thornton
Handout
16.15 - 17.05
(LPRT04) RT04 - Essay Writing & Plagiarism
Adam Liston

Handout

Library Project 1

Library Project 2

Library Project 3

Mark Sheet 4

Mark Sheet 4 Word doc

Own time (P1S03) Continuous & Categorical Data (Biostatistics Web Lectures 7 - 9)
Online
 

Thursday 31st October

     
10.00 - 10.50
(C1CO01) Clinical Presentation & Treatment of Epilepsy
Sofia Eriksson

Handout

References

11.00 - 11.50
(C1CO02) Epidemiology of Epilepsy
Aidan Neligan
 
12.15 13.05
(C1CO03) Clinical Presentation of Dementia
Jason Warren
Handout
References
14.00 - 14.50
(C1G01) Imaging Animal Models
Jack Wells
 
15.15 - 16.05
(C1CO04) WHO Classification of Brain Tumours
Sebastian Brandner
Handout

Week 6

Tuesday 5th November

     
9.00 - 9.50
(P1SW2) Workshop: Statistics 2 (Group 1)
Khadija Rantell
 
10.00 - 10.50
(P1SW2) Workshop: Statistics 2 (Group 1)
Khadija Rantell
 
11.00 - 11.50

(LPRT05) RT05 - Critical Appraisal III:

Diagnostic Tests & Systematic

Adam Liston
Handout (1)
Handout (2)
Handout (3)
References
12.15 - 13.05
(LPRT06) RT06 - Presentation Skills & Running A Journal Club
Adam Liston
Presentation Assessment Form
14.00 - 14.50
(LPRT07) RT07 - Essay Writing & Careers I: Skills Audit Adam Liston
Handout
15.15 - 16.05
(P1CIT04) Medical Image Metadata and DICOM (I)
Mark White
Handout
References
16.15 - 17.05
(P1CIT05) Medical Image Metadata and DICOM (II)
Mark White
See above
Own time
(P1S04) Correlation & Regression (Moodle Lecture 4)
Online
 

Thursday 7th November

     
10.00 - 10.50
(C1CO05) Spinal Tumours - Classification, Management & Surgery
David Choi
Handout
11.00 - 11.50
(C1PNMD01) Neuromuscular Disorders - Clinical Overview: Peripheral Neuropathy
Jasper Morrow
Handout
References
12.15 - 13.05
(C1PNMD02) Neuromuscular Disorders - Clinical Overview: Myopathy
Jasper Morrow
Handout
References
14.00 - 14.50
(C1PNMD03) Imaging of Peripheral Nervous System
Sachit Krishnan
 
15.15 - 16.05
(C1PNMD04) Imaging of Muscles
Chris Sinclair

Handout

References

16.15 - 17.05
(C1PNMD05) Imaging of Plexus Chandra Hoskote
 

Week 7

Tuesday 12th November

     
9.00 - 9.50
(P1SW3) Workshop: Statistics 3 (Group 1)
Khadija Rantell TBC
 
10.00 - 10.50
(P1SW3) Workshop: Statistics 3 (Group 1) Khadija Rantell TBC
 
11.15 - 12.05
(P1PIF02) PSF, MTF, Methods of Image Reconstruction Roman Rodionov
Please, see handout and references for (P1PIF01)
12.15 - 13.05
(P1CIT06) Operating Systems and Security
Mark White
Handout
References
15.15 - 16.05
(P1MLW3) Workshop: Matlab 3 - Fourier Transforms in 1D & 2D
Adam Liston / Vladimir Litvak
Worksheet
16.15 - 17.05
(P1MLW3) Workshop: Matlab 3 - Fourier Transforms in 1D & 2D
Adam Liston / Vladimir Litvak
 

Thursday 14th November

     
10.00 - 10.50
(C1FI01) Fetal Imaging
Ash Ederies References
11.00 - 11.50
(C1FI02) Neonatal Hypoxia-ischaemia
Nikki Robertson   
12.15 - 13.05
(C1NW5) Workshop: Neuroanatomy Orientation / C1 Revision Peer-led - CR7
 
14.00 - 14.50
(C1NW3) Workshop: Spine Sachit Krishnan  
15.15 - 16.05
(C1NW3) Workshop: Spine Sachit Krishnan  
16.15 - 17.15
(C1NW5) Workshop: Neuroanatomy Orientation / C1 Revision Peer-led - CR7  

Week 8

Tuesday 19th November

     
9.00 - 9.50
(P1CIT07) Core IT - Q&A 2
Mark White
 
10.00 - 11.50
P1 Mock Exam
   
12.15 - 13.05
(P2MRI01) Why MRI is so Popular: the MRI Scanner & MR Applications
Claudia Wheeler-Kingshot
Handout
14.00 - 14.50
(P2MRI02) The Origin of the Signal: Bulk Magnetization and the Rotating Frame
Nick Todd Handout
References
15.15 - 16.05
(P1PIF03) Image Quality, Strategies of Image Quality Correction Roman
Rodionov
Please, see handout and references for (P1PIF01)

Thursday 21st November

     
10.00 - 10.50
(C1N06) Embryology of the Brain
Dawn Saunders CANCELLED
To be rescheduled
11.00 - 11.50
C1 Mock Exam
   
12.15 - 13.05
C1 Peer-to-Peer debrief
   
14.00 - 14.50
(C2S02) Clinical Presentation of Stroke David Werring
Handout
15.15 - 16.05
(C2S01) Small Vessel Disease David Werring  Handout
16.15 - 17.05
(C2S03) T2*-based imaging: detecting cerebral bleeding & other neuroimaging applications David Werring
Handout

Week 9

Tuesday 26th November

     
10.00 - 10.50
(P2MRI03) The Origin of the Signal: Excitation, Relaxation, Free Induction Decay & Echo Formation
Nick Todd
Handout
References
11.00 - 11.50
(P2MRI04) The Origin of the Image Contrast: Bloch Equations, T1, T2, PD and T2*
Martina Callaghan Handout
References
12.15 - 13.05
(LPRT08) RT08 - Journal Club
Adam Liston
 
14.00 - 14.50
(P2MRIW1) Workshop: Hands-on MRI contrast
Claudia Wheeler-Kingshot
Worksheet
15.00 - 15.50
(P2MRIW1) Workshop: Hands-on MRI contrast
Claudia Wheeler-Kingshot   
16.15 - 17.05
(P2MRI05) Image Formation: k-space, Spatial Encoding & The Fourier Transform
Rebecca Samson

Handout

References

Thursday 28th November

     
10.00 - 10.50
(C2S04) Treatment of Ischaemic Stroke
Richard Perry
Handout
11.00 - 11.50
(C2S05) Treatment of Haemorrhagic Stroke
Thomas Solbach   
12.15 - 13.15
RP STUDY DESIGN PRESENTATIONS (PTy2) Adam Liston, Tutors & Khadija  
14.00 - 14.50
(C2S07) CT / Perfusion- and Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging in Stroke
Rolf Jager
 

Friday 29th November

     
9.00 - 9.50
(C2S10) Motor Recovery - fMRI in Rehabilitation
Nick Ward
Handout
10.00 - 10.50
(C2S08) MRI of Haemorrhage & Stroke Matthew Adams
Handout
11.00 - 11.50
(C2S09) CT Angiography & MR Angiography Matthew Adams  Handout
12.15 - 13.05

(C2S12) Stroke Territories

Matthew Adams   
14.00 - 14.50
(C1N04) Skull Base & Spine Prem Rangi  
15.15 - 17.15
(C1NW2) Lecture & Workshop: Identifying Vasculature Adam Rennie  

Week 10

Wednesday 4th December

     
10.00 - 10.50
P1 Exam debrief (peer-marking then discussion of answers)
John Thornton / Adam Liston
 
11.00 - 11.50
P1 Exam debrief (peer-marking then discussion of answers)
John Thornton / Adam Liston
 
12.15 - 13.05
(LPRT09) RT09 - Careers II: Applications & Interviews
Caroline Selai / Adam Liston
 
14.00 - 14.50
(P2MRIW2) Workshop: MR Data Acquisition
N Weiskopf - FIL

Handout
15.15 - 16.05
(P2MRIW2) Workshop: MR Data Acquisition
N Weiskopf - FIL

 
16.15 - 17.05
(P2MRIW2) Workshop: MR Data Acquisition
N Weiskopf - FIL

 

Thursday 5th December

     
10.00 - 10.50
(C2SW2) Workshop: Stroke CT
Indran Davagnanam

CANCELLED
Yet to be rescheduled
11.00 - 11.50
(C2SW2) Workshop: Stroke CT
Indran Davagnanam

CANCELLED
Yet to be rescheduled
12.15 - 13.05
(C2S11) Ultrasound Doppler
Dean Barratt
TBC
 
14.00 - 14.50
(C2S13) Carotid Imaging
Martin Graves
Handout
15.15 - 16.05
(C2II01) Clinical forms of MS
David Miller
Handout
16.15 - 17.05
(C2II03) Neurological Vasculitis
Chris Turner
CANCELLED
Rescheduled on
23 January

Week 11

Tuesday 10th December

     
10.00 - 10.50
(P2MRI06) Image Formation: Basic Pulse Sequences (Gradient Echo & Spin Echo)
Rebecca Samson
Handout
References
11.15 - 12.15
(P2MRI07) Image Optimization: SNR, CNR and Sources of Artefacts
DanTozer

Handout
References
12.15 - 13.00
(P2MRI08) MR Contrast Agents: Theory, Applications & Safety
John Thornton
 
14.00 - 14.50
(P2MRI09) Advanced Pulse Sequences: Fast Imaging (FSE, EPI & FLASH)
Rebecca Samson
Handout
References
15.15 - 16.05
(P2MRI10) MR Equipment and Safety
Enrico De Vita

CANCELLED
To be rescheduled next term
16.15 - 17.05
(P2MRI11) MR Angiography
John Thornton
Handout

Thursday 12th December

     
10.00 - 10.50
Temporal Bone

Cristina Dudau

 
11.00 - 13.05

(C2SW1) Workshop: Stroke MRI

Matthew Adams

 
14.00 - 14.50
(C2II04) Neuro-imaging of HIV-related disease
Rolf Jager
 
15.15 - 16.05
(C2II05) Viral
Chandra Hoskote
TBC
 
16.15 - 17.05
(C2II06) Bacterial
Chandra Hoskote
TBC