University of Utah Department of Radiology, Department of Bioengineering, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

RDLGY 6320, BIOEN 6320, and ECE 6120
Physics of Nuclear Medicine and MRI
Summer 2005
M W F 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
School of Medicine, Classroom C
(The easiest way to find Classroom C is to take the "B" elevators in the University Hospital to the 3rd floor. You will see the classroom when you walk out the elevators.)
June 24 - August 10, 2005

Instructor:
Larry Zeng, Ph.D.
Phone: 581-3918
Email: larry@ucair.med.utah.edu
Office: Room 2115, UCAIR (Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research), 729 Arapeen Drive (Research Park, CAMT biulding, across the street of the University East Village)

Testing style: Multiple choices (closed book)

Larry's Handout (Nuclear Medicine)

Larry's Handout (MRI)

Practice Test for Test #2

Tentative Schedule


1 (Jun 24 F) Basic atomic and nuclear physics (ch. 2)
2 (Jun 27 M) Modes of radioactive decay (ch. 3)
3 (Jun 29 W) Decay of radioactivity (ch. 4)
4 (Jul 1 F) Production of radionuclides (ch. 5)
July 4th, Monday, Holiday
5 (Jul 6 W) Interaction of radiation with matter (ch. 6)
6 (Jul 8 F) Radiation detectors (ch. 7)
T (Jul 11 M) Test #1
7 (Jul 13 W) Nuclear counting statistics (ch. 9)
8 (Jul 15 F) Pulse-Height Spectrometry (ch. 10)
9 (Jul 18 M) Anger camera (chs. 13, 14)
10 (Jul 20 W) Problems in radiation detection and measurement (ch. 15)
11 (Jul 22 F) Tomography, SPECT and PET (chs.11, 16, 17, 18)
July 25, Monday, Holiday
T (July 27 W) Test #2
12 (July 29 F) Magnetization
13 (Aug 1 M) Precession, Resonance, and Imaging
14 (Aug 3 W) Imaging Techniques
15 (Aug 5 F) Spin Echo Pulse
16 (Aug 8 M) Contrast
T (Aug 10 F) Test #3 (MRI)

Required Textbook for Nuclear Medicine:

S. R. Cherry, J. A. Sorenson and M. E. Phelps: Physics in Nuclear Medicine (3nd Ed)
This textbook is available at the Health Sciences Bookstore (not the main bookstore).

MRI References (don't buy them):

Elster, A. D. and J.H. Burdette (2001). Questions and Answers in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2nd edition, St. Louis, Mosby I think this is the best book out there for practical MRI and they don’t simplify the physics, they just explain it (extremely well, I might add!). An amazing book and it is often fairly cheap (paperback).

Liang, Z.-P. and P. C. Lauterbur (2000). Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging - A Signal Processing Perspective. New York, IEEE Press. We have used this as the Advanced MRI BE/EE 7310 class textbook the last two times the class was taught. See me if you'd like an errata sheet of the errors we've found thus far.

Haacke, E. M., R. W. Brown, et al. (1999). Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Physical Principles and Sequence Design. New York, Wiley-Liss. The "bible" - you could hurt yourself (physically and/or mentally) with this very large green book, includes a chapter on quantum mechanics.

Smith, R.C. and R.C. Lange (1997). Understanding Magnetic Resonance Imaging, New York, CRC Press. Written for radiologists, has some good coverage of the basics and contains little mathematics.

JP Hornak, The Basics of MRI     at   http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri  (see also http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/)

http://www.ismrm.org/mr_sites.htm#Education  Lists technical and clinical education sites.

http://www1.stpaulshosp.bc.ca/stpaulsstuff/MRartifacts.html

http://www.users.on.net/vision/                          Avelaide MRI site by Greg Brown. Eclectic.

http://rad.usuhs.mil/rad/handouts/fletcher/fletcher            Web slides of introduction to MRI