Santa Fe Institute

Noninvasive Brain Recording Techniques and Technology

• Instructor(s): TBA
• Institution: Florida Atlantic University, CCS
• Category: Biology
• Description: A sound introduction to the imaging technologies used at the CCSBS and their application in research. Discussed in details are EEG, MEG, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and functional MRI starting at the underlying physical processes of electric and magnetic fields and material properties. The material covers spin dynamics and pulse sequences, and their relation to MR contrast with an emphasis on echo planar sequences, the basis of fMRI recordings (including an afternoon of scanning of a phantom). The nature of the EEG and MEG signals are discussed and advanced analysis methods for spatiotemporal patterns are applied to them. Prerequisite: Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.