The NEWBI4fMRI companion site with tutorials for the fMRI4Newbies lectures

The website for Jody Culham’s CulhamARI Lab

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These are some of the most useful pages I found for understanding and teaching fMRI.

Local

• Robarts Centre for Functional and Magnetic Mapping site at Western

• Contains information about our 3T and 7T MRI scanners

• Contains Safety Videos and 3T/7T Safety Quiz

• Contains Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

General

• The fMRI course at Duke has some great slides available online, many of which come from Huettel, Song & McCarthy.

• MRI Sites on the World Wide Web

• Radiology Websites: fMRI Websites

• The Oxford FMRIB group has an intro to fMRI for lay people

• How Stuff Works has pages on MRI and fMRI

MR Physics and fMRI methods

• A great, compehensive overview unpacking many aspects of MR physics, including some material on BOLD and fMRI can be found on Questions and Answers in MRI

• MRI tutorial (requires Macromedia Shockwave) on SimplyPhysics.com

• Douglas Noll’s Primer on MRI and Functional MRI

• MRI Tutor

• For a more advanced tutorial, see: Joseph Hornak’s Web Tutorial: The Basics of MRI

fMRI Methods

• Marty Sereno's Movies of Cortical Unfolding, Flattening, and Activity

fMRI Statistics

• MRC-CBU Cambridge site has a lot of info on SPM but much is of general interest

  • Rik Henson has a good page on designing efficient fMRI experiments

  • there is a useful explanation of how to convert between MNI and Talairach coordinates

  • page on identifying commissures

  • page on smoothing

• Martin Lindquist has offered a free Coursera course called "Principles of fMRI". You can check the course webpage for when the course will be offered again.

• Rebecca Saxe has an excellent fMRI boot camp. It is especially useful for multivariate analyses.

MRI Safety

• An old GE safety video has cheesy acting but powerful demos of the magnetic field (See esp time = 5:18 to 8:45)

• MRI Safety

• Flying Objects Site on SimplyPhysics.com

• MGH has some general information on magnet safety

Brain Anatomy

• Neurosynth is an excellent resource that provides a meta-analysis of fMRI studies that is useful for examining activation for specific tasks

• Brain Tutor is free software for learning anatomy (particularly cortical anatomy)

• Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection

• Comparative Neuroanatomy and Intelligence

Data Structure

• BIDS format

Software

• Neuroimaging Tools and Resources Community

• fMRIprep preprocessing pipeline

• BrainVoyager

• FSL

• SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping)

• AFNI (Analysis of Functional Neuroimages)

• FreeSurfer

• MRIcron

• A comprehensive list of neuroimaging software on Wikipedia

• An article on DTI software

Data

• Human Connectome Project

• OpenNeuro