M229 - 2020 Spring Quarter Schedule

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  Date Lecture Topic Reading and Assignments
#1 3/31 Tue

Introduction – Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
slides

Background p.3-28
#2 4/2 Thu Pulse Sequences – Rapid GRE
slides
14.1 Gradient Echo p.579-606
review paper
#3 4/7 Tue Pulse Sequences – RARE / Bloch Simulation MATLAB demo
slides
16.4 RARE p.774-801
#4 4/9 Thu Pulse Sequences – Extended Phase Graphs (EPG) / MATLAB demo
slides
[Homework 1] due on 4/24
review paper
#5 4/14 Tue

RF Pulse Design – Adiabatic Pulses

slides

1.2 Rotating Reference Frame, p.21-28
6.2 Adiabatic Inversion Pulses, p.189-199
review paper
#6 4/16 Thu

RF Pulse Design – Multi-dimensional Excitation k-space I

slides

Small-tip approximation
Excitation k-space paper
Bloch equation simulator

5.4 Spatial-Spectral Pulses p.153-163

#7 4/21 Tue

RF Pulse Design – Multi-dimensional Excitation k-space II / MATLAB Demo

slides | matlab file

[Homework 2] due on 5/8

 
#8 4/23 Thu Project Discussion
slides
[Project proposal] due on 5/11
 
#9 4/28 Tue Fast Imaging – EPI, PROPELLER
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16.1 Echo Planar Imaging p.702-739
17.5 Projection Acquisition p.915-919
#10 4/30 Thu Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling I
slides
 
17.5 Projection Acquisition p.897-927
17.6 Spiral p.928-954
Spiral design code
#11 5/5 Tue Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling II
slides
 
13.2 Gridding Reconstruction p.506-521
13.5 Phase Difference Reconstruction p.558-567
17.6 Spiral p.946-952
#12 5/7 Thu Managing Motion in MRI
slides
 
#13 5/12 Tue MR Temperature Mapping - Dr. Le Zhang review paper
#14 5/14 Thu Image Reconstruction – Partial k-space
slides
13.4 Partial Fourier Reconstruction p.546-557
#15 5/19 Tue

Image Reconstruction – Parallel Imaging I

slides

Multi-coil Recon

SENSE

#16 5/21 Thu

‌Advanced Application Topic - Dr. Rohan Dharmakumar

"Cardiac BOLD MRI: Past, Present and Future"

 
#17 5/26 Tue

Image Reconstruction – Parallel Imaging II 

slides

SMASH

Parallel Imaging Overview

#18 5/28 Thu

Compressed Sensing / Artificial Intelligence

slides

Compressed Sensing

CS MRI

ML model selection and evaluation

‌#19 ‌6/2 Tue

Advanced Application Topic - Dr. Yingli Yang

"Using MRI in Radiation Therapy"

‌#20 6/4 Thu‌

‌Advanced Application Topic - Dr. Fabien Scalzo

"Machine Learning in Neurovascular Care"

Final Project
 

6/5 

Fri

Final Project Abstract Due

Abstract template

 
  6/11 Thu Final Project Presentation Deadline