Abstract
Modulating the sample or the experiment has been a key (and obvious) approach in NMR for decades. It is also a foundational concept for the hugely successfully fMRI and dMRI techniques. The bountiful SNR of ultra-high field systems have allowed the development of equivalent MRS techniques: functional and diffusion weighted MRS. However, analysis tools for these techniques have been lacking, especially those which integrate the experimental model. In this talk we will introduce a new MRS toolbox, FSL-MRS, and show how it can be used to analyse the cutting edge of MRS acquisitions, as well as more traditional data.
Biographies
Dr William Clarke
Dr William Clarke is a Wellcome Career Development Fellow at the University of Oxford. He and his group specialise in developing novel acquisition and analysis tools for MR spectroscopy of the human brain. Having trained in cardiac phosphorus spectroscopy, and spent time working in ultra-high field neuroimaging, he brings experience from a wide range of MRI systems and applications. He often uses it to help clinical and basic science researchers use cutting-edge MRS methods for their own research.
Prof Saad Jbabdi
Prof Jbabdi is a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. He trained in Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Ecole Centrale Paris, where he also obtained his PhD in 2006. He has wide ranging contributions to research in imaging methodology development, particularly in diffusion MRI, functional MRI, and spectroscopy.