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Dates
April 10-12, 2025
Venue
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Rua da Junqueira, 100, 1349-008 Lisbon
Organizers
Dr. Pedro Vilela, Dr. Rui Duarte Armindo, Dr. Henk-Jan Mutsaerts, Dr. Jan Petr,
Beatriz Padrela, and Mathijs Dijsselhof
Cost
FREE REGISTRATION, sponsored by eScience Center Netherlands. Coffee breaks and lunch will be provided for the maximum number of registrants (50). Note that we are not able to provide travel, housing, and other consumptions like breakfast and dinner.
Targeted experience level
Thursday and Friday lectures are for beginners and intermediate ASL students. Saturday is for intermediate-experienced.
Target group
We aim for a broad audience, including medical doctors, engineers, physicists, PhD students, and experienced researchers who want to know more about ASL use in clinics and clinical research. There will be ample opportunities for networking.
Learning goals
Process ASL data using the ExploreASL pipeline from data preparation to image analysis and interpretation;
Use ExploreASL data to prepare inputs for the Cerebrovascular BrainAge tool;
Perform Cerebrovascular BrainAge estimation and interpret the results.
See the Preliminary program below.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Thursday 10th April
13.30-14.00 Arrival and registration
14.00-15.30 Clinical use of ASL
Introduction to perfusion measurement with ASL (Henk Mutsaerts)
Current clinical applications (Pedro Vilela)
Clinical value of ASL in rare vascular malformations (Rui Duarte)
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.30 Advanced ASL methods
Multi-PLD and BBB-ASL (Beatriz Padrela)
16.30-17.00 Short scientific talks
Understanding cognitive ageing: From unravelling inter-individual variability in cognitive functioning to advancing its research (Michelle Jansen)
ASL in pediatric glioma (Yeva Prysiazhniuk)
18.00 (Social activity)
19.30 (Joint dinner)
Friday 11th April
09.00-09.30 Arrival
09.30-10.30 Obtaining, storing, and sharing data (hands-on)
How to set up ASL acquisition (Henk Mutsaerts)
Sharing ASL data for research (Jan Petr)
ExploreASL installation (Jan Petr)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Obtaining, storing, and sharing data - Part 2 (hands-on)
ExploreASL - DICOM to BIDS conversion (Jan Petr)
12.00-13.30 Work lunch and discussions
13.30-15.30 ExploreASL processing (hands-on)
Executing ExploreASL (Beatriz Padrela)
ExploreASL in a nutshell (Henk Mutsaerts)
ExploreASL output (Henk Mutsaerts)
ExploreASL errors (Jan Petr)
ExploreASL settings (Mathijs Dijsselhof)
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.30 Quality checking ExploreASL outputs (hands-on)
QC quiz and introduction (Henk Mutsaerts)
QC hands-on (Henk Mutsaerts, Mathijs Dijsselhof, Jan Petr)
17.30-18.00 Bring your own data
19.00 (Joint dinner)
Saturday 12th April
09.00-09.30 Arrival
9.30-10.30 Introduction to BrainAge
BrainAge basics (Michelle Jansen, Lonneke Bos)
Applications of structural BrainAge (Michelle Jansen, Lonneke Bos)
Advanced MRI in BrainAge (Michelle Jansen, Lonneke Bos)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.00 Cerebrovascular BrainAge setup (practical hands-on session)
BrainAge with ASL – state-of-the-art (Mathijs Dijsselhof)
Using ExploreASL to prepare data (Mathijs Dijsselhof)
Installing the BrainAge GUI (Saba Amiri, Peter Kok)
12.00-13.30 Work lunch and discussions
13.30-16.30 Cerebrovascular BrainAge (practical hands-on session)
Data harmonization of multi-center data (Saba Amiri, Peter Kok)
Training a new BrainAge model (Saba Amiri, Peter Kok)
Applying a trained model to testing data (Saba Amiri, Peter Kok)
Results interpretation & discussion (Saba Amiri, Peter Kok)
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