BENG280A, Principles of Biomedical Imaging 09/24/09 Fall Quarter 2009 HO #1 INFORMATION SHEET Instructor: Thomas Liu, Department of Radiology Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Room 1001 (858) 822-0542 , [email protected] Teaching Assistant: Jia (Tim) Guo (Office hours: Mondays:TBD; Wednesdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm in Center for fMRI Conference Room) Lectures: Tuesdays/Thursdays 9:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m., Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, Room 161 Office Hours: Tuesdays 4 to 5 pm; Wednesdays 12 pm to 1 pm or by appointment. Center for fMRI Conference Room. Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor. Required Texts: Medical Imaging Signals and Systems, Jerry L. Prince and Johnathan M. Links, Prentice Hall 2006. Errata available at http://iacl.ece.jhu.edu/~prince/mibook/mierrata-v1.03.pdf Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Dwight G. Nishimura (we will order copies of this from the author) Course Web Site: http://cfmriweb.ucsd.edu/ttliu/BE280A_09.html (mirror site: http://fmriserver.ucsd.edu/ttliu/BE280A_09.html) Lecture notes will be posted on the web by 5 p.m. the day before the class. Course e-mail list: Course e-mails will be sent through StudentLink to registered students. Course Description: Fundamentals of Fourier transform and linear systems theory including convolution, sampling, noise, filtering, image reconstruction, and visualization with an emphasis on applications to biomedical imaging. Examples from optical imaging, CT, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear, PET, and radiography. Grading: 25% Homework/Quizzes/Class Participation, 35% Midterm Project, 40% Final ProjectBioengineering 280A: Principles of Biomedical Imaging 9/19/09 Fall Quarter 2009 Tentative Syllabus Week 1 Thursday 9/24 Course Policies, Overview of Imaging Modalities; CT example Week 2 Tuesday 9/29 X-rays: Basic Physics; Contrast; Source and object magnification. Thursday 10/01 X-ray imaging solution; Delta functions and signal expansions; impulse response. Week 3 Tuesday 10/06 Review Signal Expansions; Linearity; Superposition; Shift Invariance; Convolution Thursday 10/08 X-ray imaging equation; Begin CT; Week 4 Tuesday 10/13 Radon Transform; Backprojection; Begin Fourier Transforms; Thursday 10/15 Fourier Transform theorems; Modulation Transfer Function. Week 5 Tuesday 10/20 Convolution Theorem; CT: Projection Slice Theorem; Thursday 10/22 Filtered back projection; Sampling: 1D and 2D sampling, Whitaker-Shannon sampling theorem, aliasing; Application to CT Week 6 Tuesday 10/27 MRI: Overview, Basic physics, Bloch Equation MRI: Gradients, Signal Equation, Spin-warp pulse sequence Thursday 10/29 Sampling Reviewed; MRI: Resolution and sampling requirements Week 7 Tuesday 11/03 MRI: Slice Selection; RF Pulse design Thursday 11/05 MRI: Image Contrast and Noise Week 8 Tuesday 11/10 MRI: Fast Imaging Methods Thursday 11/12 MRI: Advanced Image Reconstruction Week 9 Tuesday 11/17 MRI: Applications Thursday 11/19 Ultrasound: Overview and basic physics Week 10 Tuesday 11/24 Ultrasound: Beam formation; Scanning; Sampling Reviewed Thursday 11/26 NO CLASS: Thanksgiving Holiday Week 11 Tuesday 12/01 Ultrasound: Phased Array systems, Doppler Thursday 12/03 Emerging Modalities Week 12 Finals Week Final project presentations (8 am to 11 am) on day of scheduled
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