EE 691: Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

General Handouts:

1. 2012-08-22 Flyer
2. 2012-08-22 Syllabus
3. 2012-08-22 Fourier Transforms review sheet (by John Jackson)
4. 2012-08-22 Academic Integrity Policy
5. 2012-08-22 MRI Screening Form (required to enter the scanner room)
6. 2012-08-22 Vendor Acronyms
7. 2012-08-22 Classroom Flipping: Khan, Data, Book.
8. 2012-09-11 Discussion Forum: EE691 @ Piazza

Calendar:

• 2012-09-04 Logistics, Review of MR Physics
• 2012-09-06 Image Artifacts
  [ISMRM2012, Wally Block] & [ISMRM2011, Don Mitchell + Martin Graves]
  
• 2012-09-11 Flow and Motion Encoding
  [ISMRM2010, Eric Wong]
  
• 2012-09-13 Diffusion and ASL
  [ISMRM2012, Richard Buxton]
  [ISMRM2012, Eric Wong]
  
• 2012-09-18 Diffusion and ASL (contd.)
• 2012-09-20 Motion Compensation
  [ISMRM2012, Himanshu Bhat]
  
• 2012-09-25 Noise in MRI
  [ISMRM2009, Klaas Pruessmann]
  
• 2012-09-27 Rapid Imaging
  [ISMRM2012, Pauline Worters]
  
• 2012-10-02 MRI Industry (market segments, business opportunities)
  [ISMRM2012 Exhibitor List] list of companies to check out
  [ISMRM2008, Florian Odoj] story of a hardware startup
  
• 2012-10-04 MRI Industry (patents, university agreements)
  [ISMRM2008, Mark Jay] university-industry relationships
  
• 2012-10-09 Cartesian Parallel Imaging
  [ISMRM2012, Jonathan Polimeni]
  
• 2012-10-11 Cartesian Parallel Imaging (contd.)
• 2012-10-16 Non-Cartesian Parallel Imaging
  [ISMRM2012, Nicole Sieberlich]
  
• 2012-10-18 Constrained Reconstruction
  [ISMRM2009, Zhi-Pei Liang]
  [ISMRM2011, Jeff Fessler]
  [ISMRM2012, Shreyas Vasanawala] (clinical opportunities)
  
• 2012-10-25 * * * Project #1 Presentations * * *
• 2012-10-30 Steady State Free Precession
  [ISMRM2008, Klaus Scheffler]
• 2012-11-01 Fast Sequences and Phase Graphs
  [Seminal Paper, Scheffler et al.]
  [ISMRM2011, Karla Miller]
  
• 2012-11-06 DCE and DSC Imaging
  [ISMRM2012, Matthias Weigel] first 12 minutes only!
  [ISMRM2012, Linda Knutsson] DSC
  [ISMRM2012, Josephine Naish] DCE
  
• 2012-11-08 Water-Fat Imaging (Guest Lecturer: Harry Hu)
  [Book Chapter, Harry Hu]
  [Slides, Harry Hu]
  
• 2012-11-13 Paired Feedback
• 2012-11-15 Explaining MRI Concepts
• 2012-11-20 (no class - Thanksgiving week)
• 2012-11-27 Shinnar Le-Roux RF Pulse Design
  [Seminal Paper, Pauly et al.]
  Extra: [Lecture Notes, John Pauly]
  [Book Chapter, Bernstein et al.]
  
• 2012-11-29 MRI Safety and Compatibility of Devices (Guest Lecturer: Frank Shellock)
  • [Journal Paper, Frank Shellock et al.]
    
  • [Website, Frank Shellock]
    
• 2012-12-04 (no class - APSIPA)
• 2012-12-06 * * * Project #2 Presentations * * * (time may be changed in order to get a better room)

Other Suggested Viewing/Reading:

1. Lauterbur Lecture 2012
   [ISMRM2012, Vivian Lee]
2. Mansfield Lecture 2012 History of MRI Development
   [ISMRM2012, Paul Bottomley]
3. Adiabatic RF Pulses
4. Gradient Distortion
5. Gridding Reconstruction
   [ISMRM2012, John Pauly]
6. Clinical Neuro and Musculoskeletal Imaging (90+% of clinical MRI today)
7. Clinical Body Imaging and Emerging Applications
8. Functional MRI: BOLD and ASL
9. Gradient Waveform Design

Resources:

1. UpToDate (clinical background)
2. PubMed (lit search)
3. Illiad (PDF requests)
4. EE 591 website
5. ISMRM 2012 program

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