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ECE 480: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Fall 2023)
Course Outline
Introduction
Tomographic Imaging Principles
- Fourier Transform Imaging
- Radon Transform Imaging
Magnetic Resonance Concepts: Signal Generation
- Spin, magnetic moment, and nuclear magnetism
- RF excitations
- Spin-spin relaxation and spin-lattice relaxation
- Free induction decay and echo formation
Imaging Principles: Signal Localization
- Selective excitations
- k-space imaging methods
- Phase encoding
- Frequency encoding
- k-space trajectories
Midterm Exam
Image Reconstruction Techniques
- Image reconstruction from Fourier-space data
- Image reconstruction from Radon-space data
Image Contrast Mechanisms
- ρ-weighted, T1-weighted, T2-weighted, T2*-weighted, diffusion-weighted contrasts
- Typical imaging sequences
Image Resolution and Artifacts
- Resolution limitation
- Image artifacts due to nonideal conditions
Selected Topics
- Fast imaging
- Biomedical applications
Final exam
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