M229 - 2023 Spring Quarter Schedule
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| #1 | 4/4 Tue |
Introduction – Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications |
Background, p.3-28 |
| #2 | 4/6 Thu |
Pulse Sequences – Rapid GRE slides |
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 |
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 |
Small-tip approximation 5.4 Spatial-Spectral Pulses, p.153-163 |
| #7 | 4/25 Tue |
Fast Imaging – EPI, PROPELLER slides |
16.1 Echo Planar Imaging, p.702-739 17.5 Projection Acquisition, p.915-919 |
| #8 | 4/27 Thu |
Project Discussion slides [Project proposal] due on 5/8 [Project abstract] due on 6/8 |
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| #9 | 5/2 Tue |
Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling I slides |
17.5 Projection Acquisition, p.897-927 17.6 Spiral, p.928-954 |
| #10 | 5/4 Thu |
Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling II slides |
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) |
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) |
Sparse MRI Review paper on CS MRI |
| #14 | 5/18 Thu |
Image Reconstruction – Deep Learning (by Shu-Fu Shih) |
Review paper |
| #15 | 5/23 Tue |
Managing Motion in MRI slides |
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 |
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| #17 | 5/30 Tue |
Advanced Application Topic - Emerging Neuroimaging Techniques for Brain Tumor Characterization and Beyond (by Dr. Jingwen Yao) slides |
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| #18 | 6/1 Thu |
Advanced Application Topic - Motion-Resolved Quantitative MRI (by Dr. Anthony Christodoulou) slides |
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ISMRM Week (no lectures) |
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Final Project |
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6/8 |
Final Project Abstract Due
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6/13 |
Final Project Presentation (10 min + 10 min Q&A)
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