M219 - 2025 Winter Quarter Schedule

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Course Syllabus

 

  Date Lecture Topic Reading and Assignments
#1 1/6 Mon

Introduction 
  • Nishimura - Ch 2
#2 1/8 Wed

MRI Systems I: B0 and Bulk Magnetization

 

Homework #0 | MATLAB script

 

  • Nishimura - Ch 3.1
#3 1/13 Mon

MRI Systems II: Nuclear Precession and B1

Homework #1
  • Nishimura - Ch 4
  • Liang/Lauterbur - Ch 3.1 and 3.3
#4 1/15 Wed

Bloch Equations and Relaxation I
  • Nishimura - Ch 4, 5
  • Liang/Lauterbur - Ch 3.1 and 3.3
#5 1/20 Mon No Lecture - MLK Holiday  
#6 1/22 Wed

Bloch Equations and Relaxation II
#7 1/27 Mon

MRI Systems III: Gradients
#8 1/29 Wed

Imaging Principles 

Homework #2
  • Nishimura - Ch 5
  • Liang/Lauterbur - Ch 5.2, and 5.3
#9 2/3 Mon

Spatial Localization I
  • Nishimura - Ch 5
  • Liang/Lauterbur - Ch 5.2, and 5.3
#10 2/5 Wed

Spatial Localization II
  • Nishimura - Ch 5/6
  • Liang/Lauterbur - Ch 5.1
#11 2/10 Mon

MRI Signal Equation and Basic Image Reconstruction (by Dr. Holden Wu)
  • Nishimura - Ch 7
#12 2/12 Wed

Fast Imaging and Advanced Image Reconstruction (by Dr. Holden Wu)

Homework #3 
  • Nishimura - Ch 8
#13 2/17 Mon

No Lecture - President's Day

 
#14 2/19 Wed

Imaging Sequences I
  • Nishimura - Ch 7
#15 2/24 Mon

Imaging Sequences II
  • Nishimura - Ch 7
#16 2/26 Wed

‌Imaging Sequences III
  • Nishimura - Ch 7
‌#17 3/3 Mon

Volumetric Imaging (by Dr. Xiaodong Zhong)
  • Nishimura - Ch 8.1
#18 3/5 Wed

Fast Imaging (by Dr. Anthony Christodoulou)
  • Nishimura - Ch 8.2
#‌19 ‌3/10 Mon

Basics of MR Spectroscopy (by Dr. Albert Thomas)
  • Nishimura - Ch 9
  • Robin de Graaf, In Vivo NMR Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications, 3rd Edition, Wiley Publications 2018, Chapters 2 and 6
‌#20 3‌/12 Wed

Fast MR Spectroscopic Imaging (by Dr. Albert Thomas)
  • Nishimura - Ch 9
  • Robin de Graaf, In Vivo NMR Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications, 3rd Edition, Wiley Publications 2018, Chapters 7 and 8
3/17-21 (2-4pm) ----  Final Exam at The Bauer Auditorium (BH-173 CHS)