Medical Imaging & Image Reconstruction

Special Topics in Signals & Systems (ECEn 682R, Section 1)

Winter 2012



Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 1:00 - 1:50pm
Location: 369 Clyde Building
Instructor: Neal K. Bangerter
Office: 449 Clyde Building
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 2:00 - 3:00pm
Phone: 801-422-4869
Email: nealb@ee.byu.edu
Course Information: Syllabus
  Introduction to Matlab - Optional
Homework:
Homework #1
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Homework #2
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Lecture Schedule and Notes:
Jan 4 - 6 Lectures 1 and 2
       Wilhelm Roentgen - X-ray guy
       Godfrey Hounsfield - CT
       Allan Cormack - CT
       Henri Becquerel - discovered radioactivity
       George de Hevesy - developed radioactive tracers
       Lord John Rayleigh - interaction of acoustic waves with media
       Felix Bloch - early work in NMR
       Edward Purcell - early work in NMR
       Richard R. Ernst - early work in NMR and MRI
       Raymond Damadian - one of the inventors of MRI (controversial)
       Paul Lauterbur - Nobel Prize for MRI in 2003
       Sir Peter Mansfield - Nobel Prize for MRI in 2003
Jan 9 Lecture 3: Signals & Systems Review
Jan 11 Lecture 4: 2D Fourier Transform
Jan 13 Lecture 5: Sampling in 2D
Jan 20 Lecture 6: Review of Random Variables
Jan 23 Lecture 7: Quantitative Accuracy, Specificity, Sensitivity, etc.
Jan 25 Lecture 8: Introduction to the Physics of Radiography
Jan 27 Lecture 9: Interactions of Ionizing Radiation with Matter
Jan 30 Lecture 10: X-ray Sources and Detectors
Feb 1 Lecture 11: X-ray Imaging Equation
Feb 3 Lecture 12: Computed Tomography
Feb 6 Lecture 13: Reconstruction Techniques for Computed Tomography
Feb 8 Lecture 14: MRI!!!