Course Identification

Basic physics and basic calculus

MRI has become one of the dominant methods used for imaging soft tissue in the body. 

It is clinically useful because of the high spatial and contrast resolution it achieves. It is also very useful because of the multiple features that it probes, including proton density, relaxation times, flow, diffusion, chemical shift, etc. In this course we will explain the basic physics and mathematics of NMR and MRI.

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to obtain an understanding of how an MRI scanner works (physics and mathematics), an understanding of the basic sequences available on MRI scanners, the primary mechanisms of image contrast (T1, T2, D, flow, etc) and the  various MRI applications that have been developed, from MR angiography, MR diffusion imaging, functional MRI, etc

Will be provided at the start - M. Bernstein, K. King, J. Zhao, {\em Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences}, Elsevier, 2004, ISBN- 13: 978- 0-12-092861-3; E. M. Haacke, R. Brown, M. R. Thompson, R. Venkatesan:Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Physical Principles and Sequence Design, Wiley-Liss