M229 - 2025 Spring Quarter Schedule
| Date | Lecture Topic | Reading and Assignments | |
| #1 | 4/1 Tue |
Introduction – Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications |
Background, p.3-28 |
| #2 | 4/3 Thu |
Pulse Sequences – Rapid GRE |
14.1 Gradient Echo, p.579-606 Review paper |
| #3 | 4/8 Tue |
Pulse Sequences – RARE / Bloch Simulation MATLAB demo |
16.4 RARE, p.774-801 |
| #4 | 4/10 Thu |
Pulse Sequences – Extended Phase Graphs (EPG) / MATLAB demo [Homework 1] due on 4/21 Mon |
Review paper |
| #5 | 4/15 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 | 4/17 Thu |
RF Pulse Design – Excitation k-Space / MATLAB demo [Homework 2] due on 4/28 Mon |
5.4 Spatial-Spectral Pulses, p.153-163 |
| #7 | 4/22 Tue |
Image Reconstruction – Partial k-Space (by Dr. Kyung Sung) |
13.4 Partial Fourier Reconstruction, p.546-557 |
| #8 | 4/24 Thu |
Image Reconstruction – Parallel Imaging (by Dr. Kyung Sung) |
Multi-coil Recon SENSE |
| #9 | 4/29 Tue | Image Reconstruction – Compressed Sensing (by Dr. Shu-Fu Shih) | Sparse MRI Review paper on CS MRI |
| #10 | 5/1 Thu |
Project Discussion slides [Project Proposal] due on 5/9 Fri |
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| #11 | 5/6 Tue | Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling I | 17.5 Projection Acquisition, p.897-927 17.6 Spiral, p.928-954 |
| #12 | 5/8 Thu | Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling II | 13.2 Gridding Reconstruction, p.506-521 13.5 Phase Difference Reconstruction, p.558-567 17.6 Spiral, p.946-952 |
| ISMRM Week (no lectures) | |||
| #13 | 5/20 Tue | Fast Imaging – EPI, PROPELLER | 16.1 Echo Planar Imaging, p.702-739 17.5 Projection Acquisition, p.915-919 |
| #14 | 5/22 Thu |
Image Reconstruction – Deep Learning (by Shu-Fu Shih) |
Review paper |
| #15 | 5/27 Tue | Fat-Water Imaging (by Dr. Xiaodong Zhong) | |
| #16 | 5/29 Thu |
Susceptibility Imaging (by Dr. Jingwen Yao) |
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| #17 | 6/3 Tue |
Motion in MRI (by Dr. Anthony Christodoulou) |
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| #18 | 6/5 Thu | Advanced Applications of MRI - TBD (by Dr. Jason Chiang) | |
| Final Project | |||
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6/6 Fri |
Final Project Abstract Due
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6/10, 6/12 |
Final Project Presentation (10 min + 10 min Q&A)
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