ECE 802: Medical Imaging

Fall 2004

Course Objective: The goal of this course is to explore the basic physics and mathematics of medical imaging systems and to understand some of the common clinical applications of US, CT, MRI, PET, and SPECT.

Instructor:	Dr. Robert McGough Phone: 432-3333 E-mail: mcgough@egr.msu.edu Office Hours: TTh 4:30-5pm and 6:30-7pm or by appointment Office Location: 1213 EB Web site: www.egr.msu.edu/~mcgough
Lecture:	TuTh 5-6:20pm in 1225 EB
Final Exam:	Monday December 13 5:45-7:45pm.
Text:	Required Text: Introduction to Biomedical Imaging by Andrew Webb Supplemental Texts (on reserve in the Engineering Library): Medical imaging systems, Albert Macovski Fundamentals of acoustics, Lawrence E. Kinsler and Austin R. Frey Diagnostic ultrasound: principles and instruments, Frederick W. Kremkau. Principles of computerized tomographic imaging, Avinash C. Kak and Malcolm Slaney. Magnetic resonance imaging: physical principles and sequence design, E. Mark Haacke Principles and practice of positron emission tomography, editor, Richard L. Wahl
Grading Policy:	Homework and Computer Projects – 60% In-class presentation – 10% Exam #1 – 15% Final Exam – 15% Attendance is required
Grader:	N/A

Prerequisites: Graduate Standing in Engineering, Math, Physics, Chemistry or related field. Experience with computer programming (using Matlab) is required. Basic understanding of signal processing and Fourier transforms is expected.

Attendance is required

Homework:

Homework will be assigned each week and collected at the beginning of class the following week.

Textbook Errata: errata.pdf

Exam Schedule:

Exam No.

Date

Topics Covered

Thursday

October 29

5-6:30pm

US & CT