The schedule includes a number of invited speakers and sessions for contributed talks and posters.
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Schedule
| Friday Evening - October 15, 2010 | |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Registration |
| 5:30 - 6:30 | Keynote Talk |
| Marco Ferrari - “NIRS: A Historical Perspective” Faculty of Medicine, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, Department of Health Sciences |
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| 6:30 - 8:30 | Reception (sponsored by TechEn) |
| Saturday - October 16, 2010 | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Developmental |
| Chair: Charles Nelson Children’s Hospital Boston |
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| Judit Gervain - "Extracting repetitions and sequential position from speech at birth" CNRS - Paris Descartes University |
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| Gentaro Taga - “ Spontaneous activity and perceptual-cognitive responses in young infants" University of Tokyo |
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| Sarah Lloyd-Fox - "The Infant Social Brain: Data, Design and Development of fNIRS at CBCD” Birkbeck, University of London, Department of Psychology |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break Provided by fNIR Devices |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Data Analysis I |
| Chair: Gary Strangman Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Mass. |
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| Heidrun Wabnitz - "Depth resolution by time-domain NIRS" Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt , Berlin |
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| David Boas - "Atlas Based Imaging for fNIRS" Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Mass. |
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| Andrew Berger - "Scalp-only channels increase sensitivity to visual cortex activations" The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. |
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| Ted Huppert - "Statistical parametric mapping in fNIRS: reinventing the wheel" University of Pittsburgh, Department of Bioengineering |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Lunch Provided by NIRx |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Poster Viewing Group Odd Numbers |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Clinical |
| Chair: Clare Elwell University College London, Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering |
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| Joe Culver - "Functional Connectivity" Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis |
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| Arjun Yodh - “Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy measures on Blood Flow” University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Philadelphia, Pa. |
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| Ellen Grant - “Assessment of Flow and Metabolism in the Healthy and Injured Developing Brain” Children's Hospital Boston, Center for Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science, Department of Neonatology, Division of Neuroradiology |
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| 3:00 - 4:00 | Poster Viewing Group Even Numbers |
| 4:00 - 4:45 | Panel Discussion on Analysis Challenges |
| Chair: Frederic Lesage Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Department of Electrical Engineering |
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| Panelists: Anna Blasi University College London, Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering Gary Strangman Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Mass. Jong Chul Ye Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea |
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| 4:45 - 6:00 | Contributed Papers - Methods |
| Chair: Hanli Liu Department of Bioengineering, the University of Texas at Arlington |
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| Jong Chul Ye - "Group Analysis and Family-Wise Error Rate Control for Statistical Parameter Mapping for NIRS" Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea |
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| Yunjie Tong - "Analysis of Concurrent fMRI and NIRS data using Regressor Interpolation at Progressive Time Delays(RIPTiDe) Suggests the Origin of Some Low Frequency Oscillations in the Brain" McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center, Belmont, Mass. |
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| Vlad Toronov - "Optimal Quantitation of the Cerebral Hemodynamic Response in functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy: Broadband versus Multi-Wavelength Approach" Department of Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario |
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| Alessandro Torricelli - "Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy by Time Domain Reflectance at Null Source-Detector Distance" Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, and IIT Research Unit, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy |
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| So Hyun "Sophie" Chung - "Non-Invasive Measurements of Various Human Tissue Temperature Based on Quantitative Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS) of water" Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. |
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| Sunday - October 17, 2010 | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Developmental II |
| Chair: Sharon Fox Harvard-MIT (Division of Health Sciences and Technology), Cambridge, Mass. |
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| Richard Aslin - "Cross-modal influences on sensory cortex responses in infants" Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging, Rochester, N.Y. |
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| Teresa Wilcox - "Optical Imaging: New Discoveries about Visual Object Processing in Infants" Texas A&M University, Department of Psychology, College Station, Texas |
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| Heather Bortfeld - “Assessing developmental change in normal and impaired auditory processing” University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology & Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Conn. |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Contributed Papers - Applications |
| Chair: Valentina Quaresima Faculty of Medicine, University of L'Aquila, L’Aquila Italy |
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| Emmanuel Dupoux - "Infants' Brain Correlates of Socially Relevant Speech" Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris |
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| John Spencer - "Detecting Developmental Changes in Visual Working Memory" Department of Psychology, University of Iowa / Delta Center, Iowa City, Iowa |
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| Louise Coutts - "The Haemodynamic Response to Visual Stimulation in Migraine Measured using Near-infrared Spectroscopy" Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. |
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| Venkatagir Krishnamurthy - "Quantified Oxy-Hemoglobin Concentration Changes in Anterior Pre-Frontal Cortex Reflecting Cognitive Evaluation of Pain Intensity using fNIRS" Department of Bioengineering, the University of Texas at Arlington |
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| Andrei V. Medvedev - "Fast Optical Signal: 'Seeing' Electrical Brain Activity through the Scalp?" Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. |
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| Alexander Lin - "Imaging and Characterizing Neurovascular Reactivity with Periodic Gas Inhalation Challenges in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease" Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP), Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California, Irvine |
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| 12:00 - 12:45 | Lunch Provided by ISS, Inc |
| 12:45 - 1:30 | Panel Discussion on Probes |
| Chair: Sol Diamond Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Hanover, N.H. |
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| Panelists: Randall Barbour NIRx, Glen Head, N.Y. Hanli Liu Department of Bioengineering, the University of Texas at Arlington Arthur "Buzz" DiMartino TechEn, Inc., Milford, Mass. Willy Colier Artinis Medical Systems BV, Zetten, The Netherlands |
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| 1:30 - 3:00 | Multi-modal |
| Chair: Vlad Toronov Department of Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario |
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| Maria Angela Franceschini - “Study of the Neurovascular Coupling With fNIRS” Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Mass. |
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| Hellmuth Obrig - “EEG and NIRS to assess language” Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig & Clinic for Cognitive Neurology University Hospital, Leipzig, Germany |
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| Jason Berwick - “Why perform simultaneous NIRS and fMRI?” Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, U.K. |
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| 3:00 - 3:10 | Closing Remarks and Discussion of Future Meetings |