PHYS8500 -- MRI Physics and Applications

Course Instructor:Dr. Qun Zhao
Time and Place:MF,5th period, Physics Building 254
Office and Phone:228C Physics or 119C Coverdell Center
 Phone: 583-5558
Email:qzhao@physast.uga.edu
Office Hour:MF 1:15-2:15 or by appointment
Textbook:Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Physical Principles and Sequence Design,
    by E.M. Haacke, R.W. Brown, M.R. Thompson, and R. Venkatesan, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999
Contents:MRI Physics and applications (fMRI, DTI, parallel imaging) Grading:
Homework/presentation: 35%
Lab/Mid term 35%
Final exam/term paper 30%

Syllabus

Class Notes

  1. Final exam answers  
  2. Lecture1 (1/7) Introduction  
  3. Lecture2 (1/11) Basic principles of MR  
  4. Lecture3 (1/14) Rotating reference frame  
  5. Lecture4 (1/18) MR instrumentation  
  6. Lecture5 (1/25) Magnetization & relaxation  
  7. Lecture6 (1/28) MR Signal Generation -- Part I  
  8. Lecture7 (2/1) MR Signal Generation -- Part II  
  9. Lecture8 (2/4) One-dimensional Fourier Imaging  
  10. Lecture9 (2/8) Spin Echo  
  11. Lecture10 (2/11) Spin Echo (continued)   
  12. Lecture11 (2/15) Gradient Echo   
  13. Lecture12 (2/18) Multi-dimensional imaging Pt1   
  14. Lecture13 (2/22) Multi-dimensional imaging Pt2   
  15. Lecture14 (2/25) Multi-dimensional imaging Pt3   
  16. Lecture (2/29, 3/3, 3/7) Paper presentations   
  17. Lecture15 (3/17) Image FOV, Resolution, and k-space   
  18. Lecture16 (3/21) Signal, noise, and contrast   
  19. Lecture17 (3/24) Pulse sequence I   
  20. Lecture18 (3/28, 3/31) Pulse sequence II   
  21. Lecture19 (4/4) MR Inhomogeneity Effects   
  22. Lecture20 (4/7) Susceptibility Imaging and functional MRI   
  23. Lecture21 (4/11) Paper review: functional MRI   
  24. Lecture22 (4/14) Diffusion-weighted imaging   
  25. Lecture23 (4/18) Diffusion tensor imaging   
  26. Lecture24 (4/21) parallel MRI   
  27. Lecture24 (4/25) Contrast-enhanced MRI   

Homework

  1. Homework #1 (due 1/18/08)  
  2. Homework #2 (due 1/25/08)  
  3. Homework #3 (due 2/1/08)  
  4. Homework #4 (due 2/8/08)  
  5. Homework #5 (due 2/18/08)  
  6. Homework #6 (due 2/25/08)  
  7. Homework #7 (due 3/3/08)  
  8. Homework #8 (due 3/28/08)  
  9. Homework #9 (due 4/11/08)  

Labs

  1. Lab1 note (3/5)  
  2. Lab2 note (3/19)  
  3. Lab3 note (3/26)  
  4. Lab4 note (4/2)  
  5. Lab5 note (4/9)  

References