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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 | |
| Homework: | ||
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| Homework #2     compton_angles.mat |
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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!!! |