ECE 480 - Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
S LEC 1400 - 1520 T R   163 Everitt Lab  Zhi-Pei Liang

Web Page http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece480/
Official Description Fundamental physical, mathematical, and computational principles governing the data acquisition and image reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging. Same as BIOE 480. 3 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Recommended: ECE 410.
Hours 3 or 4 hours.
Subject Area Biomedical Imaging, Bioengineering, and Acoustics
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 210
Credit in ECE 280
Course Directors Zhi-Pei Liang
Description Fundamental physical, mathematical and computational principles governing the data acquisition and image reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging.
Notes Same as: BIOE 480
Credit 3 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours.
Topics
  • Basic physical principles for signal generation and detection: magnetized spin systems; RF excitations; MR signal detection and characteristics
  • Imaging principles: selective excitations; phase-encoding; frequency-encoding; k-space sampling trajectories
  • Image reconstruction techniques: concepts of ill-posedness and point spread function; computational techniques for image reconstruction from sampled Fourier transform and Radon transform data
  • Image contrast, resolution, signal-to-noise, and artifacts: MR contrast mechanisms; resolution limitations; noise characteristics; motion artifacts
  • Fast-scan imaging: fast spin-echo imaging; fast gradient-echo imaging; echo-planar imaging; and burst exitations
  • Constrained imaging: concepts of image reconstruction with a priori constraints
Course Prerequisites ECE 410 is recommended.
Texts Z-P. Liang and P. C. Lauterbur, Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, IEEE press.