BENG 208: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lab Course: Winter 2008

Bioengineering 208: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lab
Winter Quarter 2008

Instructor: Eric Wong PhD MD
Keck Center for FMRI Room 1011
(858) 822-0564
ecwong@ucsd.edu
Lectures: Mondays, 10:00-10:50 AM
Keck Center for fMRI Conference Room 1014
Map to Center
Labs: MoWe 1:00-2:50 PM
Keck Center for fMRI 3T West Scanner - Room 1026
Office Hours: By Appointment: ecwong@ucsd.edu
Keck Center for FMRI Room 1011
Teaching Assistant: Joy Liau, jliau@ucsd.edu
TA Office hours: By Appointment: jliau@ucsd.edu
Texts: 1) Required text: Principles of MRI by D.G. Nishimura
2) Recommended Reading: Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences by Matt A. Bernstein
Prerequisites: BENG 280A or consent of intructor.

Class Information:

  1. Syllabus
  2. K-space Demo Requires Mathematica Player, free from Wolfram.com
  3. Hennig's Papers on Echoes and Coherence Pathways: Part 1 Part 2
  4. Blaimer's Review of Parallel Imaging Methods

Lecture Slides:

  1. Lecture 1 Introduction, Hardware Overview, and Quadrature Detection
  2. Lecture 2 Spinwarp Imaging and Basic Image Contrast
  3. Lecture 3 Echo Formation, Coherence Pathways, Gradient Echoes
  4. Lecture 4 Echo Planar Imaging
  5. Lecture 5 Image Artifacts and SNR
  6. Lecture 6 Parallel Imaging
  7. Lecture 7 MR Angiography
  8. Lecture 8 RF Coils
  9. Lecture 9 Arterial Spin Labeling
  10. Lecture 10 Diffusion Imaging

Lab Assignments:

  1. Lab 1 Image reconstruction, B1 mapping, quadrature detection
  2. Lab 2 Spinwarp Imaging and Basic Image Contrast
  3. Lab 3 Spin Echoes and Gradient Echoes
  4. Lab 4 Echo Planar Imaging
  5. Lab 5 Image Artifacts and SNR
  6. Lab 6 Parallel Imaging
  7. Lab 7 MR Angiography
  8. Lab 8 RF Coils
  9. Lab 9 Arterial Spin Labeling
  10. Lab 10 Diffusion Imaging

Related Links:

  1. Duke Virtual Imaging Lab
  2. The Basics of NMR by Joseph Hornak (an animated on-line book).
  3. MRI Educational Links from the ISMRM site
  4. MRI Tutorials and Q&A
  5. MRI Tutorial from Stuart Clare's Dissertation
  6. MRI Artifacts
  7. 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. BE248 MRI (taught by M. Tyszka at Caltech)