M229 - 2021 Spring Quarter Schedule

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Course Syllabus

 

  Date Lecture Topic Reading and Assignments
#1 3/30 Tue

Introduction – Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
slides

Background, p.3-28
#2 4/1 Thu Pulse Sequences – Rapid GRE
slides | notes
14.1 Gradient Echo, p.579-606
review paper
#3 4/6 Tue Pulse Sequences – RARE / Bloch Simulation MATLAB demo
slides | MATLAB scripts
16.4 RARE, p.774-801
#4 4/8 Thu Pulse Sequences – Extended Phase Graphs (EPG) / MATLAB demo
slides | MATLAB scripts (emailed)
[Homework 1] due on 4/23 Fri
review paper
#5 4/13 Tue

RF Pulse Design – Adiabatic Pulses

slides | notes

1.2 Rotating Reference Frame, p.21-28
6.2 Adiabatic Inversion Pulses, p.189-199
review paper
#6 4/15 Thu

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

slides | notes

 

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

5.4 Spatial-Spectral Pulses, p.153-163

#7 4/20 Tue

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

slides | notes | matlab

[Homework 2]  due on 5/7 Fri

 
#8 4/22 Thu Project Discussion
slides
[Project proposal] due on 5/10 Mon
[Project abstract] due on 6/4 Fri
 
#9 4/27 Tue Fast Imaging – EPI, PROPELLER
slides
16.1 Echo Planar Imaging, p.702-739
17.5 Projection Acquisition, p.915-919
#10 4/29 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 5/4 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 5/6 Thu Image Reconstruction – Partial k-space
slides | notes
13.4 Partial Fourier Reconstruction, p.546-557
#13 5/11 Tue Managing Motion in MRI
slides
11.5.3 Acquisition with Cardiac Triggering, p.415-418
12 Basics of Physiologic Gating, Triggering, and Monitoring, p.443-490
#14 5/13 Thu

Image Reconstruction – Parallel Imaging I

slides | notes

Multi-coil Recon

SENSE

ISMRM Week (no lectures)
#15 5/25 Tue

Image Reconstruction – Parallel Imaging II 

slides | notes

SMASH

Parallel Imaging Overview

#16 5/27 Thu

Compressed Sensing / Artificial Intelligence

slides

Compressed Sensing

CS MRI

ML model selection and evaluation

‌#17 ‌6/1 Tue

Advanced Application Topic - Kim-Lien Nguyen, M.D.

"T1 mapping for characterization of myocardial tissues"

 

‌#18 6/3 Thu‌

‌Advanced Application Topic - Ai-Chi Chien, Ph.D. 

"Imaging and analysis for vascular disease"

Final Project
 

6/4 Fri

Final Project Abstract Due

 

 
 

6/7 Mon

Final Project Recorded Presentation Due (5-6 min)

 

 
  6/8 Tue Final Project Presentation and Q&A Session (5-6 min + 5 min Q&A)