Center for Functional MRI In the Department of Radiology

Bioengineering 280A: Principles of Biomedical Imaging
Fall Quarter 2010

Instructor: Thomas Liu
Center for FMRI (Map)
(858) 822-0542; ttliu@ucsd.edu
Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:50 AM
Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall Room 161
Office Hours: Mondays 4 pm to 5 pm in the Center for FMRI Conference room
Wednesdays 12 pm to 1 pm in the Center for FMRI Conference Room
Teaching Assistant: Omer Tal, otal@ucsd.edu
TA Office hours: Wednesdays 3 to 4 pm Center for FMRI Conference room
Texts: 1) Required text: Medical Imaging Signals and Systems by J.L. Prince and J.M. Links, Prentice-Hall 2005; Errata
2) Required Text: Principles of MRI by D.G. Nishimura (we will custom order copies from the author)
3) Assorted Handouts
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of intructor.
Course Mirror Sites: fmriserver.ucsd.edu
cfmriweb.ucsd.edu

Handouts:

  1. Information Sheet
  2. Tentative Syllabus
  3. Homework 1
  4. Homework 2
  5. Homework 3 with MATLAB file
  6. Homework 4
  7. Midterm Project
  8. Homework 5 with Supplementary Notes and Safety Video (200MB) .
  9. Homework 6
  10. Homework 7 with MATLAB file

Lecture Slides:

  1. Last year's slides
  2. Introductory Lecture (9/23/10)
  3. X-Rays/CT Lecture 1 (9/28/10 & 9/30/10)
  4. X-Rays/CT Lecture 2 (9/30/10 & 10/05/10)
  5. CT/Fourier Lecture 1 (10/05/10)
  6. CT/Fourier Lecture 2 (10/07/10)
  7. CT/Fourier Lecture 3 (10/09/10 & 10/12/10)
  8. CT/Fourier Lecture 4 (10/14/10)
  9. CT/Fourier Lecture 5 (10/19/10 & 10/21/10)
  10. MRI Lecture 1 (10/26/10)
  11. MRI Lecture 2 (10/28/10 & 11/02/10)
  12. MRI Lecture 3 (11/02/10)
  13. MRI Lecture 4 (11/09/10)
  14. MRI Lecture 5 (11/16/10 & 11/18/10)
  15. MRI Lecture 6 (11/18/10)
  16. MRI Lecture 7 (11/22/10)

Related Links:

  1. Convolution Website
  2. Magritek MRI Videos
  3. Duke Virtual Imaging Lab
  4. On-line Medical Imaging Resources by P. Sprawls
  5. Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging by Kak and Slaney
  6. The Basics of MRI by Joseph Hornak (an animated on-line book).
  7. The Basics of NMR by Joseph Hornak (an animated on-line book).
  8. MRI Educational Links
  9. MRI Tutorials and Q&A
  10. MRI Artifacts
  11. SpinBench: Graphic MR Pulse Sequence Environment for MAC OS X
  12. Bloch Simulator for Windows/MAC/Linux
  13. MRI Software Tools

Related Classes on the Web:

  1. Bioengineering 278 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lab
  2. SOM276A-C fMRI Courses in the UCSD School of Medicine
  3. COGSCI 276 NeuroImaging (formely taught by M. Sereno at UCSD)
  4. BME530 Medical Imaging Systems (taught by W. Block at Univ. Wisconsin Madison)
  5. BME516 Medical Imaging Systems (taught by D. Noll at Univ. Michigan )
  6. EE369C Medical Image Reconstruction (taught by J. Pauly at Stanford)
  7. EE591 MRI (taught by K. Nayak at USC)
  8. BE248 MRI (taught by M. Tyszka at Caltech)
  9. HST.584J/22.561J Magnetic Resonance Analytic, Biochemical, and Imaging Techniques (MIT,Spring 2006)
  10. 22.56J/HST.561J Noninvasive Imaging in Biology and Medicine (MIT, Fall 2005)
  11. 22.058 Principles of Medical Imaging (MIT, Fall 2002)