Pre-Conference Workshops

Held on Thursday, October 9th

Increase your knowledge and hone technical skills at ASFNR's pre-conference workshops!
This year we're offering four optional workshops for attendees to choose from:

Functional MRI | Perfusion Imaging | PET-MRI/Neurodegenerative | Brain Focused Ultrasound

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BOLD fMRI Workshop

Workshop Description
New Format with Vendor Hands-On Sessions and Resting-State fMRI

This full day workshop provides didactic and hands-on experience with clinical fMRI, including task-based language and motor mapping, as well as an introduction to DTI and resting-state fMRI. The aim of the workshop is to equip attendees with the foundation to begin or enhance their own clinical fMRI program.

There will be hands-on experience with NordicNeuroLab and Prism software.

Course Directors:
Rajan Jain, MD & Erik Middlebrooks, MD​

Perfusion Imaging Workshop

Workshop Description

This full-day workshop will cover applications of perfusion imaging related to stroke and neuro-oncology. During the first half of the workshop, we will review the basic techniques of CT perfusion and MRI perfusion techniques such as dynamic susceptibility contrast and arterial spin labeling , as they pertain to acute ischemic stroke. We will then focus on how perfusion imaging can be utilized for detection and prognostication in stroke caused by vessel occlusions through case illustrations. Lastly, through a case-based review, we will touch on the utility of perfusion imaging with respect to stroke mimics.

In the second half of this workshop, we will do a deep dive into the application of perfusion imaging in neuro-oncology. Through expert-led lectures and an interactive hands-on session, attendees will gain practical experience in post-processing and interpretation of tumor perfusion imaging. This workshop will focus on how MR perfusion can aid in further classifying brain tumors, assessing treatment response, and differentiating neoplasms from their imaging mimics, providing critical insights for clinical decision-making.​

Course Directors:
Vivek Yedavalli, MD & Amit Desai, MD

PET-MR Workshop

Workshop Description

This full-day workshop provides practical didactic and hands-on experience with clinical PET-MRI, including use of surface and blended images for the enhanced diagnosis of different neurological diseases. Attendees will gain familiarity with the indications, advantages and imaging appearance of PET studies for dementia, epilepsy and other diseases through a case-based review with experts.​

Course Director:
Tim Shepherd, MD, PhD ​

Brain Focused Ultrasound Workshop

Workshop Description

This full day workshop will cover applications of transcranial focused ultrasound with an emphasis and focus on FDA-approved clinical procedures such as MR Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) for movement disorders. We will review the relevant factors in determining a patients’ candidacy by reviewing current clinical applications, covering the role of CT and MRI, and demonstrating how to calculate and interpret the skull density ratio (SDR) and skull thickness values. We will cover the role of pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative imaging in targeting, thermal imaging, and assessing the post-procedure imaging appearance of a HIFU lesion. The workshop will specifically cover the role of advanced imaging techniques.

During this workshop attendees will have the opportunity to complete a vendor-specific FDA approved training requirement by attending a series of didactic lectures.

This training is the first step in a two-part process. After completion of this training the participant will then be directed to perform on-site, hands-on training in an MRI suite. This second step can be performed at your site if there is an active clinical program or alternatively participants can visit Dr Shahs team at UTSW Medical Center.​

Course Directors: 
Bhavya R Shah, MD
Timothy J Kaufmann, MD
Dheeraj Gandhi, MD

Program coming soon!

AI Workshop

Topics of Discussion:

  1. Neuroradiology Data Preparation

  2. Setting up the Compute Environment

  3. DL Classroom: Neuroradiology Segmentation

  4. DL Classroom: Neuroradiology Classification

  5. A didactic session on LLMs/LLVMs

  6. DL Classroom: LLM’s in Neuroradiology

  7. Evaluating AI vendors

Register for a Workshop

Workshop Description (Registration closed)

The ASNR and ASFNR societies partner to offer an education program focused on the topic of “AI for Neuroradiology,” and seeks to train its attendees and make them effective leaders and collaborators in AI projects. The program’s target audience include clinical neuroradiologists and radiology trainees, as well as computational researchers, data scientists, and PhD faculty engaged in neuroimaging research.

Course Directors: Spyridon Bakas, PhD, Evan Calabrese, MD, PhD & Jeffrey Rudie, MD, PhD

Associate Directors: Chandan Yogananda, PhD, Shahriar Faghani, MD & Fred Kwon, MD, PhD​

Advisory: Peter Chang, MD, Rajan Jain, MD & Greg Zaharchuk, MD, PhD