Instructor
Brad Sutton
Associate Professor
Expected Course Outcomes
By the end of class, students will be able to:
- Describe the basic physics behind the MRI signal
- Simulate spin echo gradient echo MRI experiments using a Bloch simulator
- Understand the relationship between pulse sequence components of RF pulses and gradients to image parameters
- Understand the SNR/spatial resolution/ acquisition time trade-offs of traditional imaging
- Perform basic image reconstruction steps, including from Cartesian and non-Cartesian acquisitions
- Understand the basic physics and processing steps for diffusion tensor imaging and functional MRI
Required Materials
- Noll primer on imaging: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~dnoll/primer2.pdf
- E-mri applets for learning basics of MRI (registration is free): https://www.imaios.com/en/e-Courses/e-MRI
- Liang. Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A signal processing perspective. Free access on campus or through VPN: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=5264284
- LECTURE 1 - 2/28
- Handouts of Introduction Lecture: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/sutton_INTROMRI_lecture1_distrib.pdf
- LECTURE 2 - 3/2
- LECTURE 3 - 3/7
- Due March 7: Homework 1 handout: http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/hw1.pdf
- Homework 1 MATLAB code: http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/HW1MatlabFiles.zip
- Lecture notes: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/2017_03_07.pdf
- LECTURE 4 - 3/9
- LECTURE 5 - 3/14
- Due March 14: Homework 2 handout: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/hw2.pdf
- Lecture notes:https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/2017_03_14.pdf
- PPPT Slides: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/noll_gridding_ismrm.pdf
- LECTURE 6 - 3/16
- HW 3 will be due. HW 3 handout: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/hw3.pdf
- Homework 3 MATLAB code: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/Gridding1DCode.zip
- Lecture notes:
- Supplemental HW 4 - processing fMRI data in SPM12. Handout: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/How2AnalyzeDataSPM12.pdf
- Link to Data and Software: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/bioe572/secure/Sutton/LINKtoDATA.pdf
Schedule
- Will teach class on 2/28/17, 3/2/17, 3/7/17, 3/9/17, 3/14/17 and 3/16/17