EE 591: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Reconstruction

Prof. Krishna Nayak
Spring 2012
University of Southern California

Handouts:

  1. 2012-01-09 Flyer
  2. 2012-01-09 Syllabus
  3. 2012-01-09 Fourier Transforms review sheet (by John Jackson)
  4. 2012-01-09 Academic Integrity Policy
  5. 2012-01-09 MRI Screening Form (required to enter the scanner room)
  6. 2012-01-16 Vendor Acronyms
  7. 2012-01-23 Classroom Flipping: Khan, Data, Book.
  8. 2012-04-25 What Next?
  9. 2012-05-12 Grading: 40% Homework, 30% Midterm, 30% Final Project
    Letter grade cutoffs will be made based on the grade distribution of MS students.

Pencasts:

  1. 2012-01-10 Imaging Modalities
  2. 2012-01-16 Preliminaries (complex numbers & fourier transforms)
  3. 2012-01-16 Preliminaries (rotation matrices & basic probability)
  4. 2012-01-17 MRI Physics (NMR, B0, B1)
  5. 2012-01-23 MRI Physics (FID, T1, T2, G)
  6. 2012-01-29 Bloch Equation to Signal Equation
  7. 2012-01-31 Signal Equation Revisited
  8. 2012-01-31 2D Imaging
  9. 2012-01-31 Sampling Considerations
  10. 2012-02-05 Excitation (part 1)
  11. 2012-02-12 Excitation (part 2)
  12. 2012-02-21 Simulation in Matlab
  13. 2012-03-03 Off-Resonance
  14. 2012-03-03 Echoes

Assignments:

  1. 2012-01-23 Homework #1 -- Due Friday, Jan 27th
  2. 2012-01-29 Homework #2 -- Due Monday, Feb 6th
  3. 2012-02-01 Homework #3 -- Due Monday, Feb 13th
  4. 2012-02-20 Homework #4 -- Due Friday, March 2nd -- headraw.mat, simpulse.m, sliceselect.mat, specspat.mat
  5. 2012-03-03 Homework #5 -- Due Monday, March 19th
  6. 2012-03-26 Final Project
    • 2012-04-09 Progress Report Template -- Due Monday, April 16th -- DOC
    • 2012-04-28 Final Presentation Template -- Due Monday, April 30th -- PPT
    • 2012-05-12 Project Grading: 70% content, 30% presentation;
      up to 20% bonus for providing high quality peer evaluations
  7. 2012-04-02 Homework #6 -- Due Monday, April 9th
  8. 2012-04-13 Homework #7 -- Due Friday, April 20th -- rt_spiral.mat, grid1.m

Resources:

  1. SpinBench (MRI simulator)
  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Library of Articles
  4. Matlab Demos, Functions, Datasets

Previous Semesters:

  1. Sample Class Projects
  2. Fall 2009 Website (some links may be broken)

General MRI Resources:

  1. The Basics of NMR by Joseph Hornak (an animated on-line book).
  2. MRI Q&A for Physicists
  3. ISMRM List of MR Sites