Center for Functional MRI In the Department of Radiology

Bioengineering 280A: Principles of Biomedical Imaging
Fall Quarter 2008

Instructor: Thomas Liu
Center for FMRI (Map)
(858) 822-0542; ttliu@ucsd.edu
Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:50 AM
Sequoyah Hall148
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4 pm to 5 pm in the Center for FMRI Conference room
Wednesdays 12 pm to 1 pm in Room 1001 of the Center for FMRI
Teaching Assistant: Anna Leigh Rack-Gomer, arackgom@ucsd.edu
TA Office hours: Mondays 11 am to 12 pm; Wednesdays 10 am to 11 am; Center for FMRI Conference room
Texts: 1) Required text: Medical Imaging Signals and Systems by J.L. Prince and J.M. Links, Prentice-Hall 2005
2) Required Text: Principles of MRI by D.G. Nishimura (we will custom order copies from the author)
3) Assorted Handouts
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of intructor.
Course Mirror Sites: fmriserver.ucsd.edu
cfmriweb.ucsd.edu

Handouts:

  1. Information Sheet
  2. Tentative Syllabus
  3. Homework 1
  4. Homework 2
  5. Pre-lecture notes
  6. Homework 3 with MATLAB file
  7. Homework 4
  8. Midterm Project [ HW4 Prob 4 solutions ]
  9. Homework 5 with Safety Video (200MB) . Video also viewable online here
  10. Homework 6 with MATLAB file
  11. Homework 7
  12. Final Project

Lecture Slides:

  1. Last year's slides
  2. Introductory Lecture (9/25/08)
  3. X-Rays/CT Lecture 1 (9/30/08; 10/2/08; 10/4/08)
  4. X-Rays/CT Lecture 2 (10/07/08)
  5. CT Lecture 1 (10/9/08 & 10/14/08 )
  6. CT Lecture 2 (10/14/08 & 10/16/08 )
  7. CT Lecture 3 (10/16/08 & 10/21/08 )
  8. CT Lecture 4 (10/23/08 & 10/28/08 )
  9. MRI Lecture 1 (10/28/08 & 10/30/08 )
  10. MRI Lecture 2 (10/30/08 & 11/4/08 )
  11. MRI Lecture 3 (11/4/08 & 11/6/08 )
  12. MRI Lecture 4 (11/12/08)
  13. MRI Lecture 5 (11/17/08)
  14. MRI Lecture 6 (11/17/08 & 11/19/08)
  15. MRI Lecture 7 (11/19/08)
  16. Ultrasound Lecture 1 (11/25/08 & 12/2/08)
  17. Ultrasound Lecture 2 (12/2/08)

Related Links:

  1. Convolution Website
  2. Duke Virtual Imaging Lab
  3. On-line Medical Imaging Resources by P. Sprawls
  4. Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging by Kak and Slaney
  5. The Basics of MRI by Joseph Hornak (an animated on-line book).
  6. The Basics of NMR by Joseph Hornak (an animated on-line book).
  7. MRI Educational Links
  8. MRI Tutorials and Q&A
  9. MRI Artifacts
  10. SpinBench: Graphic MR Pulse Sequence Environment for MAC OS X
  11. Bloch Simulator for Windows/MAC/Linux
  12. MRI Software Tools

Related Classes on the Web:

  1. Bioengineering 208 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lab
  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)
  9. HST.584J/22.561J Magnetic Resonance Analytic, Biochemical, and Imaging Techniques (MIT,Spring 2006)
  10. 22.56J/HST.561J Noninvasive Imaging in Biology and Medicine (MIT, Fall 2005)
  11. 22.058 Principles of Medical Imaging (MIT, Fall 2002)