• Part 1: MR physics (Virginia Flanagin)
• Part 2: Experimental Design (Monica Emch)
• Part 3: fMRI data analysis (Virginia Flanagin
• Part 4: Tutorial for data analysis (Joshua Yudice)

This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in particular functional magnetic resonance for the masters program in Neuro-cognitive Psychology (NCP). It consists of a combination of lectures, a trip to the MRI and data analysis methods. We will focus on the data acquisition and analysis of fMRI data.

The course is set up as 1.5 hours of lecture in the morning. Because the content of the course builds on previous lessons, the lecture portion will be split-up into a review followed by the current week's lesson.

In the last part of the course, you will also have tutorials, these will be longer than the lecture part of the course.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Work safely in an MRI environment
• Identify artefacts in MRI data and describe their causes based upon MR physics
• List the steps to prepare MRI data for scientific analysis
• Correctly design an fMRI study
• Perform a basic fMRI analysis using the toolbox Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) (version 12) for Matlab
• Critically evaluate the methods section of scientific papers that use fMRI

• Please sign-up for your preferred time slots to visit the MRI machine here

• Room C11, Fifth Floor, Leopoldstraße 44

• Virginia L. Flanagin (virginia.flanagin@lmu.de)
• Monica Emch (monica.emch@tum.de)
• Joshua Yudice (joshua.yudice@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

Course contents, lecture slides, etc. (restricted access)

Animated introduction to MRI – MRI animations
ReviseMRI.com – Additional material for studying MRI
The basics of MRI – A more detailed introduction to MRI
MR Basics from Siemens. The book magnets, spins, and resonances and is a basic but solid reference for MR physics and image creation.

Human Brain Function, 2nd Edition – PDF drafts of book chapters
SPM12 manual – Manual to SPM

COBIDAS Report – Guidelines on how to write a paper that used fMRI

Neuroanatomy lecture from Pinky and the Brain

SPM – a software package for functional neuroimaging
MRIcro/MRIcron – a software tool for image viewing and conversion
FSL – an alternative software package for functional neuroimaging (unix based)