Lecture: Tu/Th 12:30pm-2pm (ECJ 1.306)
Course website: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~jtamir/ece381vsp23.html
Instructor: Prof. Jon Tamir
E-mail: jtamir@utexas.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays 4-5pm, Thursdays 2-3pm
Teaching assistant: Brett Levac
E-mail: blevac@utexas.edu
Office hours: TBD
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a safe and non-invasive medical imaging modality that incorporates all facets of engineering. This course provides an introduction to MRI, particularly focusing on computational co-design of the signal acquisition and post-processing algorithms. The course will cover the principles of MRI, including basic system hardware, spin physics, signal formation, contrast mechanisms, pulse sequence design, image detection, and image reconstruction. Advanced image reconstruction topics will be discussed including parallel imaging, compressed sensing, and machine learning. Concepts will be explored through the use of real and synthetic data in the homeworks, labs, and final project.
The instructor’s policy is to follow CDC guidance. Please stay at home if you are feeling sick, have been recently exposed to Covid, or have a positive Covid result.
To help preserve our in person learning environment, the university
recommends the following:
- Vaccinations
are widely available, free and not billed to health insurance. The
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others and reduce serious symptoms in those who are vaccinated.
- Proactive
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Students should have taken the following courses or
equivalent:
Digital signal processing (EE 351M)
Coding experience with Python is necessary and assumed. Basic experience
installing command-line programs (Windows, Mac, or Linux) is also
expected.
Familiarity with the following courses is helpful but not
necessary:
Biomedical Imaging Modalities (ECE 385J)
Convex optimization (ECE 381K)
Probability & Stochastic Processes (ECE 381J)
The first part of the course will follow the text,
The second part of the course will follow lecture notes modeled after a variety of sources, including,
Bernstein, King and Zhou, Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences
Elsevier/Wiley, 2004
Available online to UT students here: [UT
link]
Haacke, Brown, Thompson, and Venkatesan, Magnetic Resonance
Imaging: Physical Principles and Sequence Design, John Wiley & Sons
New York, NY 1999. ISBN: 0-471-35128-8
Available online to UT students here: [UT
link]
Z.-P. Liang, P. Lauterbur, Principles of Magnetic Resonance
Imaging: A Signal Processing Perspective, IEEE Press.
Available for purchase through IEEE or Amazon: [UT
library link]
The online class system is Canvas. Most handouts will be distributed there. We will also use Canvas to send group e-mails and do online grading. Please make sure you know how to access Canvas and that you are listed there as a student.
We will also use Piazza for online discussions. This is a good place to post questions, which can be answered by the instructor, TA, or other students. Since students often have related questions, this is also a good place to look to see other questions and answers.
HW self-grading: Homework will be self-graded, with rubric handed out with solutions. Self-grading will be due one week after the HW solutions are posted.
The plus/minus grading system will be used.
A course/instructor survey will be conducted at the end of the semester via the standard MEC form for the Instructor and each Teaching Assistant.
Request for regrading an assignment must be made in writing within one (1) week of the graded assignment being made available to students in the class.
FirstName_LastName_HW01_sol.pdf.HW Self-grading: Homework will be self-graded, with rubric handed out with solutions. Self-grading will be due one week after the HW solutions are posted.
Discussion of homework questions is encouraged; however, please be absolutely sure to submit your own independent homework solution.
Teams of 1-3 students will work together on a project. A list of project ideas will be posted at the start of the semester. In the middle of the semester, teams will submit a short project proposal to be approved by the instructor. Project deliverables will include a short report, presentation, and code repository.
Lectures will be held live over Zoom. Recorded lectures and notes will be posted to Canvas after class.
A List of the topics that will be covered is given here, in the approximate order that they will be covered. This may change based on time.
Your success in this class is important to me. We will all need accommodations because we all learn differently. If there are aspects of this course that prevent you from learning or exclude you, please let me know as soon as possible. Together we will develop strategies to meet both your needs and the requirements of the course. I also encourage you to reach out to the student resources available through UT. Many are listed on this syllabus, but I am happy to connect you with a person or Center if you would like.
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This course syllabus uses wording suggested by Prof. Brian Evans, Prof. Jeffrey Andrews, Prof. Mary Steinhardt, and the Faculty Innovation Center at UT Austin.
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