Medical Imaging & Image Reconstruction
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Medical Imaging & Image Reconstruction |
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Special Topics in Signals & Systems (ECEn 682R, Section 1) |
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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 | ||
| Final Project Presentations Schedule: | 9:00 - 10:30am, Monday April 16th | |
| 9:00 - 9:15am | Transmit Arrays in MRI - Faster Acquisition and Controlled Power Deposition (Taylor Webb and Kyle Browning) | |
| 9:15 - 9:30am | Functional MRI and BOLD Contrast (Nikki Maughan and Grayson Tarbox) | |
| 9:30 - 9:45am | Gridding Non-Cartesian Data for Cartesian Reconstruction (Richard Lindsley) | |
| 9:45 - 10:00am | Diffusion MRI Pulse Sequence Simulation (James Badal and Kurtis Cahill) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15am | Uses of Magnetic Resonance Temperature Imaging in Thermotherapy (Joshua Smith) | |
| 10:15 - 10:30am | Compressed Sensing MRI (Anjali Patil and Bryan Blankenagel) | |
| 11:00 - 12:30am, Monday April 16th | ||
| 11:00 - 11:15am | A Comparison of Sparse Domains in Compressed Sensing (Grant Wagner) | |
| 11:15 - 11:30am | Diffusion Weighted and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Jorge Jimenez) | |
| 11:30 - 11:45am | MRI Image Reconstruction Using Compressed Sensing in k-Space and Wavelet Domain (Kyra and Kevin Moon) | |
| 11:45 - noon | Simulation of MRI Image Formation with Nonlinear Gradients (Haonan Wang) | |
| noon - 12:15pm | Frequeny Dependence of Ultrasound Attenuation and Spatial Resolution (Spencer Chadderdon) | |
| 12:15 - 12:30pm | A Comparison of Compressed Sensing Sampling Schemes (Ahsan Javed and Daniel Perry) | |
| Homework: | ||
| Homework #1 SOLUTIONS shepp256.png h1.png h2.png h3.png H4.png  |
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| Homework #2 SOLUTIONS compton_angles.mat |
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| Homework #5 SOLUTIONS |
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| Final project proposal instructions |
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| Homework #6 |
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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 Paul Lauterbur - Nobel Prize for MRI in 2003 Sir Peter Mansfield - Nobel Prize for MRI in 2003 |
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| 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 Attenuation, Sources, and Detectors | |
| Feb 1 | Lecture 11: Projection Radiography and the X-ray Imaging Equation | |
| Feb 3 | Complete Projection Radiography and show image slides | |
| Feb 6 | Lecture 12: Introduction to Computed Tomography (CT) | |
| Feb 8 | Lecture 13: Reconstruction Techniques for Computed Tomography | |
| Feb 10 | Lecture 14: Introduction to MRI | Reading: p. 1 - 29 in Nishimura (Chapters 1, 2, and Chapter 3 up through 3.1.4) |
| Feb 13 | Lecture 15: Selective Excitation and Basic Pulse Sequences | Reading: p. 29 - 42 in Nishimura (the rest of Chapter 3) |
| Feb 15 | Lecture 16: The Physics of MRI | Reading: p. 45 - 55 in Nishimura (Chapter 4) |
| Feb 17 | Lecture 17: The MR Signal Equation and k-Space | Reading: p. 57 - 74 in Nishimura (Sections 5.1 - 5.5) |
| Feb 21 | Lecture 18: Pulse Sequences in k-Space and Sampling Requirements | Reading: p. 74 - 93 in Nishimura (Sections 5.6 - 5.7.3) |
| Feb 22 | Lecture 19: Pulse Sequences in k-Space and Sampling Requirements (continued...) (same lecture notes as last time) | If you didn't read last time, do the reading! (And consider yourself a slacker...) |
| Feb 24 | Lecture 20: Off-Resonance Effects and Echoes | Reading: p. 127 - 139 in Nishimura (Sections 7.1 - 7.1.3) |
| Feb 27 | Lecture 21: Spin Echoes in Imaging, other non-idealities | Reading: p. 140 - 146 in Nishimura (Sections 7.1.4 - 7.3.2) |
| Feb 29 | Lecture 22: Image Contrast, Pulse Sequence Modelling and Optimization | Reading: p. 147 - 154 in Nishimura (Sections 7.4 - 7.4.2) |
| Mar 2 | Midterm Review | |
| Mar 5 | Lecture 23: Noise Considerations | Reading: p. 154 - 165 in Nishimura (Sections 7.5 through the end of the chapter) |
| Mar 7 | Lecture 24: Fast Imaging | Reading: p. 175 - 192 in Nishimura (Chapter 8) |
| Mar 9 | DISCUSSION OF FINAL PROJECTS | Reading: p. 193 - 201 in Nishimura (Chapter 9) |
| Mar 12 | Lecture 25: Spectroscopic Imaging | Reading: p. 193 - 201 in Nishimura (Chapter 9) |
| Mar 14 | Lecture 26: Flow Imaging | Reading: p. 203 - 212 in Nishimura (Chapter 10) |
| Mar 16 | Lecture 27: Partial k-Space Reconstructions | Partial k-Space Reconstruction (John Pauly) |
| Mar 19 | Lecture 28: Non-Cartesian Reconstruction (part 1) | Non-Cartesian Reconstruction (John Pauly) |
| Mar 21 | Lecture 29: Non-Cartesian Reconstruction (part 2) | Gridding and the NuFFT (John Pauly) |
| Mar 23 | Lecture 30: Guest lecturer - Brock Kirwan (Neuropsychology) | |
| Mar 26 | Lecture 31: Compressed Sensing | Sparse MRI: The application of compressed sensing for rapid MR imaging |
| Mar 28 | Lecture 32: Parallel Imaging (part 1) | Parallel magnetic resonance imaging |
| Mar 30 | Lecture 33: Parallel Imaging (part 2) | |
| Apr 2 | Lecture 34: Diffusion MRI --- FINAL EXAM (TAKEHOME) AVAILABLE | |
| Apr 4 | Lecture 35: Ultrasound (part 1) | Ultrasound lecture notes (Apr 4 and 6) |
| Apr 6 | Lecture 36: Ultrasound (part 2) --- FINAL EXAM DUE 5pm | |
| Apr 9 | NO CLASS - FINAL PROJECT PREPARATION | |
| Apr 11 | NO CLASS - FINAL PROJECT PREPARATION | |
| Apr 16 | FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS - TIME AND SCHEDULE TBA |
