MATH 494 Syllabus

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Mathematical Introduction to Medical Imaging

Fall Semester 2008

Updates:

Assignments: click here
Lecture Notes: click here
Field trip: click here for details and map
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Lectures: M W 2:00 - 3:15 in ECG 335
Recitation: F 1:40 - 3:30 in ECG 335
Professor: Svetlana Roudenko

Office: PSA 629

Office Phone: 695-3791

Office Hours:

TBA or by appointment

E-mail: svetlana@math.asu.edu

Webpage: http://math.asu.edu/~svetlana/Fall2008.html

Graduate TA : Cristi Guevara , PSA 327
Undergraduate TA : Steven Troxler , PSA 16

Text: Introduction to the Mathematics of Medical Imaging (2th edition!) by Charles L. Epstein.

Supplementary Texts: (available in Science Library for 3 day loan)
1. An Introduction to the Principles of Medical Imaging by Chris Guy and Dominic ffytche
2. Fourier Analysis: An Introduction by Elias Stein and Rami Shakarchi
3. Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Signal Processing Perspective by Zhi-Pei Liang and Paul Lauterbur

Extra Material:
1. Lecture Notes (available as we cover the material)
2. "The Basics of MRI" -- MRI online textbook by Dr. Joseph P. Hornak
3. Paul Lauterbur "Image Formation by Induced Local Interactions: Examples Employing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance , Nature 242 (1973), 190-191 html link
4. E-MRI Tutorial

Attendance:
Students are expected to attend lectures on M and W and are encouraged to participate in discussions and work on projects on F.

Special features:
* We have a graduate and undergraduate TAs to help students with learning the material. The students are also encouraged to discuss any concerns, suggestions, remarks about the material/class/topics/projects with any of the TAs or the intructor.
* The `field trip' on Friday 09/05 to the research MRI Lab at St.Joseph hospital in downtown Phoenix.
* There will be several guest lectures by experts on medical imaging: Mark your calendars:

October 1 - "Intro to MRI" presentation (by Dr. Jim Pipe)
October 17 - "Nonuniform sampling of MRI data" (this is a special seminar 12-1pm, by Ken Johnson)
November 5 - "Modern methods in MRI" presentation (by Dr. Jim Pipe)
November 21 - "PET physics and image reconstruction" presentation (by Dr. Kewei Chen)

Be sure to attend!

Lecture Notes: Topics are available here . Lecture Notes will be available as we cover the material in class. See the link above.

Projects:
A preliminary list of projects can be found here. Each Friday will contain the discussion of the material lectured on Monday and Wednesday and work on projects.

Evaluation: by projects