M229 - 2025 Spring Quarter Schedule

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Course Syllabus

 

  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 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

Small-tip approximation paper

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  
#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)

  
#17 6/3 Tue

Motion in MRI (by Dr. Anthony Christodoulou)

  
#18 6/5 Thu Advanced Applications of MRI - TBD (by Dr. Jason Chiang)  
Final Project
 

6/6 Fri

Final Project Abstract Due

 

  
 

6/10 or 6/12

Final Project Presentation (10 min + 10 min Q&A)