Winter 2016 -- MRI Physics at UCL/BBK

(1) Feb 1 (2 hours)

  magnet hardware
  spin and precession
  Bloch equation
  T1,T2 solutions
  precession solution
  [SHOULD DO: matrix version]

(2) Feb 8 (2 hours)

  dot/cross/complex products
  linear coil xmit/receive
  signal equation
  phase-sensitive detection
  FID eq. w/multiple freqs
  spin echo
  3 RF pulses: stimulated echo

(3) Feb 15 (2 hours)

  spin echo train
  gradient echo
  gradient echo train
  Bloch:
    saturation/recovery
    inverse recovery
    2D spin echo
    2D gradient echo
    MDEFT
  basic rules for T1/T2/PD
  S/N eq.

(4) Feb 22 (2 hours)

  MPM (Helms, Jiru/Klose) Bloch equations
  complex algebra
  Fourier transform
  orthogonal decomposition
  one k-space point in image space

(5) Feb 29 (2 hours)

  one k-space point in image space, partB
  freq encoding -- incorrect intuition
  freq encoding -- correct intuition
  slice select basic concept
  slice select envelope computation
  slice select rephaser
  phase encoding
  introduce k-space trajectories

(6) Mar 07
  FLASH
  FSE
  3D Spiral FSE
  EPI
  spin echo EPI
  spin echo and vessel size

(7) Mar 14
  Fourier phase shift theorem
  Fourier freq shift theorem
  B0 defect in image space
  incrementing error stretches k-space FOV
  gradient non-linearities

(8) Mar 21
  review B0 defect
  diffusion
  perfusion
  cortical surface normalization
  anisotropic filter
  fill
  tessellate
  refine
  thickness