EE469B: RF Pulse Design for
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Final Class Presentations
8:30-11:30 Dec 15
Packard 101 (not the lecture room!)
Abstracts due Dec 13

Course Description

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) are both based on the use of radio frequency pulses to manipulate magnetization. This course will cover the analysis and design of the major types of RF pulses in one and multiple dimensions, the analysis and design of sequences of RF pulses for fast imaging, and the use of RF pulses for the creation of image contrast in MRI.

The web site from Fall 2004 is here.

Instructor
John Pauly
Information Systems Laboratory
Packard Electrical Engineering 258
(650) 723-4569
(650) 723-8473 (FAX)
pauly@stanford.edu

Class Time and Location
1:15-2:30 MW
Green Earth Sciences Room 124

Click on the link for a map, that you can zoom in and out.
A better map for metered parking is shown on this map as the green capital P's. Bring lots of quarters.

Office Hours
10-12 Tuesday

Required Text

Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences
Bernstein, King, and Zhou
Elsevier/Wiley, 2004

This should be in the bookstore. You can get it from Amazon here. This is an excellent book, which anyone working an MRI will want to have.

Course Outline
A list of the topics that will be covered is given here, in the order that they will be covered. This may change based on class interest, and time.

Grading
Weekly assignments consisting of problem sets and matlab programming.(50% of the grade)
A final project. This will be a one page abstract and a 10-15 minute oral presentation, or a 10-15 page report. (50% of the grade)

Announcements

Class Handouts (pdf)

Week 1
Notes for Sept 25, characteristics of RF
Notes for Sept 27, small-tip-angle excitation, and excitation k-space.
Assignment 1.

Week 2
Notes for Oct 2, k-space interpretation of excitation.
Notes for Oct 4, two-dimensional spiral pulse design
Assignment 2.

Week 3
Notes for Oct 9, two-dimensional spiral pulse design, continued.
Notes for Oct 11, two dimensional EPI pulses.
Assignment 3, and rfj8.mat for assignment 3.

Week 4
Notes for Oct 16, spectral-spatial pulses.
Notes for Oct 18, represenations of rotations, and the spin domain.
Assignment 4.

Week 5
Notes for Oct 23, spin-domain calculations, hard pulse approximation, forward SLR transform.
Assignment 1 solutions.
Notes for Oct 25, inverse SLR transform, RF pulse design.
Assignment 5.
Assignment 2 solutions.

Week 6
Notes for Oct 30, designing RF pulses using the inverse SLR transform.
Assignment 6.

Week 7
Notes for Nov 6, adiabatic inversion pulses, and sweep diagrams.
Notes for Nov 8, adiabatic rotations.
Assignment 7.

Week 8
Notes for Nov 13, 2D large-flip-angle pulse.
Notes for Nov 15, large-flip-angle spectral-spatial pulses.
Assignment 7 is due the 29th, since there is no class next week.
A bug has been fixed in fmp.m. Download it again if you are having trouble.

Week 9
Notes for Nov 27, short T2 excitation and contrast preparation.
Gatehouse and Bydder paper on short T2 imaging here
An mfile ab2se.m has been added to the mfiles directory for computing the spin-echo profile.
Notes for Nov 29, self-refocusing pulses, and pulse pairs.

Week 10
Notes for Dec 4, introduction to parallel excitation.
Notes for Dec 6, parallel excitation.
Submit a project abstract by Dec 13th.
Final presentations will be in Packard 101 (not the lecture room) from 8:30-11:30 Friday Dec 15.
Assignment 4 solutions.
Assignment 5 solutions.

Last Updated Dec 13, 2006