222 Advances in Medical Magnetic Resonance: Clinical MR Spectroscopy & Fast MRI Techniques (4 units)

Prerequisites: course 219, Physics 8E.

Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour. Basic principles of NMR spectroscopy, localized spectroscopic sequences on a whole body environment, single/multishot localization, water/fat suppression, chemical shift imaging sequences, processing with multidimensional Fourier transforms, gradient/spin-echo based echo-planar imaging, diffusion/perfusion imaging techniques. (Fall)

Instructor: Albert Thomas, Ph.D