BENG 278: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lab Course: Winter 2012

Bioengineering 278: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lab
Winter Quarter 2012

Instructor: Eric Wong PhD MD
Keck Center for FMRI Room 1011
(858) 822-0564
ecwong@ucsd.edu
Lectures: Mondays, 1:00-1:50 PM
Keck Center for fMRI Conference Room 1014
Map to Center
Labs: Wednesdays and Fridays 2:00-3:50 PM
Keck Center for fMRI 3T West Scanner - Room 1023
Lab reports are due at 2PM on Wednesday the week after the lab
and should be turned in by email.
Matlab code for all calculations should be included with each lab.
Office Hour: Tuesdays 12-1, or by Appointment: ecwong@ucsd.edu
Keck Center for FMRI Room 1011
Texts
(you will need at least one of these two):		 1) Principles of MRI by D.G. Nishimura
2) Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences by Matt A. Bernstein (also here )
Prerequisites: BENG 280A or consent of intructor.

Class Information:

  1. Syllabus ** UPDATED 2012.02.22 **
  2. For Compressed Sensing Lab: Random Gaussian Sampling in 1D and 2D
  3. For Compressed Sensing Lab: Simple stand alone script for wavelet transforms
  4. For Compressed Sensing Lab: Some example code to get you started
  5. Matlab Code for Magnetic Field of a Loop from Matlab Central, and a test function
  6. Simple K-Space demo in Matlab or Mathematica
  7. Coherence Diagrams Klaus Scheffler
  8. Gridding (resampling) stuff from Brian Hargreaves
  9. A full course on the Fourier Transform from Stanford

From previous BE278 classes:

  1. Website for BE278 Winter 2011
  2. Website for BE278 Winter 2010
  3. Safety Information Safety Lecture and online Safety Test are required for entry into scan room
  4. EPI/Spiral blurring simulation code
  5. Code to generate smiley face for Lab 6
  6. Original Paper on the Birdcage Coil by Hayes
  7. Magnetic Field of a Loop
  8. DENSE Motion Mapping Han Wen

Lecture Slides:

  1. Lecture 1 Nuclear magnetization, excitation, the NMR signal
  2. Lecture 2 Frequency Encoding
  3. Lecture 3 K-Space and Phase Encoding
  4. Lecture 4 RF Pulses
  5. Lecture 5 Echo Planar Imaging
  6. Lecture 6 Echoes and Coherence Pathways
  7. Lecture 7 Small tip excitation and Gridding
  8. Lecture 8 RF Coils
  9. Lecture 9 Cardiac MRI and Phase Contrast MR Angiography
  10. Lecture 10 Parallel Imaging and Compressed Sensing

Lab Assignments:

  1. Lab 1 Image reconstruction, B1 mapping
  2. Lab 2 Frequency encoding and Chemical Shift
  3. Lab 3 Phase encoding and SNR
  4. Lab 4 RF pulses
  5. Lab 5 EPI
  6. Lab 6 Coherence pathways and balanced SSFP
  7. Lab 8 RF Coils
  8. Lab 9 Cardiac Imaging
  9. Lab 10 Final Project ( code for target object which calls tile.m )
  10. Lab 11 Compressed Sensing

Related Links:

    http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8649-magnetic-field-for-a-loop
  1. SpinBench an MRI pulse sequence simulator
  2. A one page summary of Fourier Transforms
  3. Duke Virtual Imaging Lab
  4. The Basics of NMR by Joseph Hornak (an animated on-line book)
  5. MRI Educational Links from the ISMRM site
  6. Lots of cool links and software from Brian Hargreaves' site
  7. Compressed sensing stuff from Michael Lustig's site
  8. MRI Tutorials and Q&A from ReviseMRI
  9. MRI Tutorial from Stuart Clare's Dissertation
  10. MRI Artifacts
  11. Convolution Website

Related Classes on the Web:

  1. BE280A Principles of Biomedical Imaging (taught by Tom Liu at UCSD, the prerequisite to this course)
  2. SOM276A-C fMRI Courses in the UCSD School of Medicine
  3. COGSCI 276 NeuroImaging (taught by M. Sereno at UCSD)
  4. BME530 Medical Imaging Systems (taught by W. Block at Univ. Wisconsin Madison)
  5. BME516 Medical Imaging Systems (taught by D. Noll at Univ. Michigan )
  6. EE369C Medical Image Reconstruction (taught by J. Pauly at Stanford)
  7. EE591 MRI (taught by K. Nayak at USC)
  8. EE691 Advanced Topics in MRI (taught by K. Nayak at USC)
  9. BE248 MRI (taught by M. Tyszka at Caltech)