EE290T: Advanced Reconstruction Methods for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Course Description

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non- invasive tomographic imaging technique with many applications in medicine and biomedical research. Driven by demanding applications, the development of improved image reconstruction algorithms is an important research area with connections to inverse problems, approximation theory, optimization, and signal processing. State-of- the-art iterative methods can process non- uniformly acquired samples (non-Cartesian MRI), exploit information from multiple receive coils (parallel imaging), use sparsity or low-rank priors (compressed sensing), and utilize specific knowledge about physical effects during signal generation (model- based reconstruction). This course will discuss these basic concepts and explain theory and implementation of selected algorithms.

Time and Location

  • Spring 2014, Mon 10:00 - 11:30
  • UC Berkeley, Cory Hall 299
  • Instructor

  • Martin Uecker
  • Email: uecker@eecs.berkeley.edu
  • Office hours: Wed 2 PM - 4 PM (not Feb 19)
  • Prerequisites

  • basic linear algebra, Fourier analysis
  • Projects and Grading

  • Two homework projects (25% each)
  • Project 1: Iterative SENSE
  • Project 2: Non-Cartesian MRI
  • Final project with short report and presentation (50%)
  • Tentative Syllabus

  • 01: Jan 27 Introduction
  • 02: Feb 03 Parallel Imaging as Inverse Problem
  • 03: Feb 10 Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms
  • --: Feb 17 (holiday)
  • 04: Feb 24 Non-Cartesian MRI
  • 05: Mar 03 (cancelled)
  • 06: Mar 10 GRAPPA/SPIRiT
  • 07: Mar 17 Nonlinear Inverse Reconstruction
  • --: Mar 24 (spring recess)
  • 08: Mar 31 Subspace methods
  • 09: Apr 07 Model-based Reconstruction
  • 11: Apr 14 Compressed Sensing
  • 11: Apr 21 Compressed Sensing
  • 12: Apr 28 Final Project: Presentations