2018 ILAE British Chapter Epilepsy Neuroimaging Course

Open to all healthcare professionals and affiliates and MSc/PhD students, the 3-day course aims to provide both an overview and a solid foundation in state-of-the-art MRI and PET scanning in epilepsy.

The course will:

• Consist of lectures and small-group tutorials given by experienced MRI- and PET-clinicians / researchers
• Cover aspects of structural and functional MRI acquisition and analysis
• Provide introduction in physical principles and clinical applications of PET-MR
• Train participants on real patients’ data in hands-on laboratory exercises.

On completion of the course, the participants will be able to:

• Employ MRI and PET to influence the clinical management of patients with epilepsy
• Select appropriate MRI sequences, and distinguish clinical and MR features of different etiologies
• Understand the role of advanced MRI and PET-MR acquisition and post-processing analysis methods.