Fundamental Concepts of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Course Name:
G16.4404 Fundamental Concepts of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Course Director/Instructors:
Christopher Collins, PhD.
Course Outline:
The course covers the fundamental physical principles governing the data acquisition and image reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and applications in medicine and biology. A background in physical sciences is desirable but not essential.
- Basic physical principles for signal generation and detection: magnetized spin systems; RF excitations; MR signal detection and characteristics.
- Imaging principles: selective excitation; phase-encoding; frequency-encoding; k-space sampling.
- MRI hardware.
- Image reconstruction techniques: computational techniques for image reconstruction from sampled Fourier transform data.
- Image contrast, resolution, signal-to-noise, and artifacts: MR contrast mechanisms; resolution limitations; noise characteristics; motion imaging and motion artifacts.
- Fast imaging: fast spin-echo imaging; fast gradient-echo imaging; echo-planar imaging; and burst imaging.
- Functional imaging: perfusion; diffusion; BOLD.
- Spectroscopy.
- Safety.
- MR Angiography.
- Clinical applications of MRI.
Syllabus
E. Mark Haacke et al. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Wiley-Liss 1999.
D. G. Nishimura. Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Stanford 1996.
Students will be graded on homework and class participation (30%), a midterm closed book exam (30%), a project (10%), and a final exam (30%).
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