Understanding fMRI through programming

[ofgulban]

Title

Understanding fMRI through programming

Short description and the goals for the OHBM BrainHack

The aim of this project is to crate educational simulations for understanding the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signal. We are going to create single script simulations with simple graphical user interfaces to allow self driven exploration of fundamental fMRI concepts such as magnitude, phase, T2* decay, blood oxygenation effect (BOLD), and vascular magnetic field effects. Historically critical papers, equations, and figures will be linked to these scripts to build them as entry point pedagogical devices for people who have programming experience. The long term goal of is to build this repository as an educational resource to teach MRI basics to create other teaching material such as videos. An important source of inspiration for this project is https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown . Two prototypical scripts are used in the videos below which were part of a presentation that required visual beyond still figures or animations:

• [Timestamp 32:35] https://youtu.be/CeDf9YpMtLk?si=I2Ye9Btwr0Y0R1JX&t=1955
• [Timestamp 43:27] https://youtu.be/CeDf9YpMtLk?si=a1ofbstzWPTBwRbA&t=2607

Link to the Project

https://github.com/ofgulban/understanding_fMRI

Image/Logo for the OHBM brainhack website

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o6eSz0wkyQLYrZsfjAeMGIxqXJ2_yl82/view?usp=sharing

Project lead

Github: ofgulban
Discord: ofgulban

Main Hub

Seoul

Link to the Project pitch

No response

Other hubs covered by the leaders

• Seoul
• Hybrid (Asia / Pacific)
• Hybrid (Europe / Middle East / Africa)
• Hybrid (Americas)

Skills

Programming experience (any language is fine but Python will be used)

Recommended tutorials for new contributors

• Set up a brainhack friendly computing environment
• Python: Writing a script
• Python: Data analysis with Python
• Python: Visualisation

Good first issues

No response

Twitter summary

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Short name for the Discord chat channel (~15 chars)

understand_fMRI

Please read and follow the OHBM Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the OHBM Code of Conduct during the hackathon