Center for Functional MRI In the Department of Radiology

Bioengineering 280A: Principles of Biomedical Imaging
Fall Quarter 2013

Instructor: Thomas Liu
Center for FMRI (Map)
(858) 822-0542; ttliu@ucsd.edu

Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:00 AM to 12:20 PM
Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall (PFBH) Room 161
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:20 to 1:20 pm, PFBH 161
Teaching Assistant: Vivek George; vgeorge@ucsd.edu
TA Office hours: Mondays at 4 pm; PFBH Room 391
Texts: 1) Required Text: Principles of MRI by D.G. Nishimura (available from www.lulu.com)
2) Assorted Handouts
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of intructor.
Course Sites: Main Site: cfmriweb.ucsd.edu
Mirror Site: fmriserver.ucsd.edu

Handouts:

  1. Information Sheet
  2. Revised Syllabus
  3. Homework 1
  4. Homework 2
  5. Homework 3 with MATLAB file
  6. Homework 4
  7. Homework 5 with Safety Video (200MB).
  8. Midterm Project
  9. Homework 6
  10. Homework 7
  11. Final Project

Lecture Slides:

  1. Slides from 2010
  2. Introductory Lecture (9/30/13)
  3. X-Rays/CT Lecture 1 (10/02/13)
  4. X-Rays/CT Lecture 2 (10/07/13 & 10/09/13)
  5. CT/Fourier Lecture 1 (10/09/13 & 10/14/13)
  6. CT/Fourier Lecture 2 ( 10/14/13 and 10/16/13)
  7. CT/Fourier Lecture 3 ( 10/16/13)
  8. CT/Fourier Lecture 4 ( 10/21/13 & 10/23/13)
  9. CT/Fourier Lecture 5 ( 10/23/13 & 10/28/13)
  10. MRI Lecture 1 ( 10/30/13)
  11. MRI Lecture 2 ( 11/04/13)
  12. MRI Lecture 3 ( 11/06/13)
  13. MRI Lecture 4 ( 11/13/13)
  14. MRI Lecture 5 ( 11/20/13)
  15. Diffusion MRI ( 11/25/13)
  16. Motion Related Contrast in MRI ( 11/27/13)
  17. Functional MRI ( 12/02/13)
  18. Course Recap ( 12/4/13)

Related Links:

  1. Making an X-Ray Tube
  2. Matlab Tutorial
  3. Mathworks Matlab Tutorials
  4. Convolution Website
  5. Magritek MRI Videos
  6. Duke Virtual Imaging Lab
  7. On-line Medical Imaging Resources by P. Sprawls
  8. Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging by Kak and Slaney
  9. The Basics of MRI by Joseph Hornak (an animated on-line book).
  10. The Basics of NMR by Joseph Hornak (an animated on-line book).
  11. MRI Educational Links
  12. MRI Tutorials and Q&A
  13. MRI Artifacts
  14. SpinBench: Graphic MR Pulse Sequence Environment for MAC OS X
  15. Bloch Simulator for Windows/MAC/Linux
  16. 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)