M229 - 2023 Spring Quarter Schedule

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Course Syllabus

 

  Date Lecture Topic Reading and Assignments
#1 4/4 Tue

Introduction – Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
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Background, p.3-28
#2 4/6 Thu Pulse Sequences – Rapid GRE
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14.1 Gradient Echo, p.579-606
Review paper
#3 4/11 Tue Pulse Sequences – RARE / Bloch Simulation MATLAB demo
slides
16.4 RARE, p.774-801
#4 4/13 Thu Pulse Sequences – Extended Phase Graphs (EPG) / MATLAB demo
slides
[Homework 1] due on 4/28
Review paper
#5 4/18 Tue

RF Pulse Design – Adiabatic Pulses / MATLAB Demo
slides | notes

1.2 Rotating Reference Frame, p.21-28
6.2 Adiabatic Inversion Pulses, p.189-199
Review paper
#6 4/20 Thu

RF Pulse Design – Excitation k-space / MATLAB Demo
slides | notes
[Homework 2] due on 5/5

Small-tip approximation
Excitation k-space paper

5.4 Spatial-Spectral Pulses, p.153-163

#7 4/25 Tue Fast Imaging – EPI, PROPELLER
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16.1 Echo Planar Imaging, p.702-739
17.5 Projection Acquisition, p.915-919
#8 4/27 Thu Project Discussion
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[Project proposal] due on 5/8
[Project abstract] due on 6/8
 
#9 5/2 Tue Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling I
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17.5 Projection Acquisition, p.897-927
17.6 Spiral, p.928-954
#10 5/4 Thu Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling II
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13.2 Gridding Reconstruction, p.506-521
13.5 Phase Difference Reconstruction, p.558-567
17.6 Spiral, p.946-952
#11 5/9 Tue

Image Reconstruction – Partial k-space (by Dr. Kyung Sung)
slides | note

13.4 Partial Fourier Reconstruction, p.546-557
#12 5/11 Thu Image Reconstruction – Parallel Imaging (by Dr. Kyung Sung)
slides | note
Multi-coil Recon
SENSE
#13 5/16 Tue

Image Reconstruction – Compressed Sensing (by Shu-Fu Shih)
slides

Sparse MRI
Review paper on CS MRI
#14 5/18 Thu

Image Reconstruction – Deep Learning (by Shu-Fu Shih)
slides

Review paper
#15 5/23 Tue Managing Motion in MRI
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11.5.3 Acquisition with Cardiac Triggering, p.415-418
12 Basics of Physiologic Gating, Triggering, and Monitoring, p.443-490
#16 5/25 Thu Susceptibility and Conductivity Imaging (by Dr. Jingwen Yao)
slides
 
#17 5/30 Tue Advanced Application Topic - Emerging Neuroimaging Techniques for Brain Tumor Characterization and Beyond (by Dr. Jingwen Yao)
slides
#18 6/1 Thu Advanced Application Topic - Motion-Resolved Quantitative MRI (by Dr. Anthony Christodoulou)
slides
ISMRM Week (no lectures)
Final Project
 

6/8

Final Project Abstract Due

 

 
 

6/13

Final Project Presentation (10 min + 10 min Q&A)