First meeting: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 1:30 in room 321 of the Lyman-Duff Medical Sciences Building.
Rationale: Approximately 30-50 graduates students work within the medical imaging community at McGill. The current Physics of Medical Imaging course (563-607B) provides the basis for the understanding of modern medical imaging technologies but does not cover advanced techniques that are used in most state-of-the-art medical imaging modalities, particularly for research. This course is designed to provide graduate students in the medical imaging discipline with a comprehensive treatment of most major imaging technologies at an advanced level.
Course Summary: Review of advanced techniques in medical imaging including: image processing techniques (classification, segmentation, rendering), fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI, MR angiography and quantitative flow measurement, spiral and dynamic x-ray computed tomography, 2D/3D positron emission tomography (PET), basic PET physiology, surgical planning and guidance, functional and anatomical brain mapping, ultrasound imaging, and medical image processing.
Credits: 3
Lectures: 3 hours per week
Prerequisite: Physics of Medical Imaging (563-607B) or equivalent.
Reference list: Handouts. Journal review papers: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Journal of Computed Assisted Tomography, Medical Physics, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, etc. Texts: The Physics of Medical Imaging, S. Webb, Institute of Physics Publishing, The Physics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Michael J. Bronskill and Perry Sprawls, American Association of Physicists in Medicine Medical Physics Monograph.
Grading: Course project with 15-20 page report (1.5 line spacing, plus references and figures) and class presentation. Reports and presentations may be in French or English.
Tentative Schedule:
| date | speaker | topic (w/links to notes) |
| 11-Jan-02 | Collins | Course Intro + Linear Registration |
| 15-Jan-02 | Collins | Non-linear Registration, Classification, Segmentation |
| 22-Jan-02 | Collins | Surface/Volume rendering |
| 29-Jan-02 | Collins | Brain mapping / Surgery Planning (IGNS) |
| 05-Feb-02 | Pike | MRI review, fMRI, MRA |
| 12-Feb-02 | Pike | Spiral, MT, quantitative T2 |
| 19-Feb-02 | Meyer/Evans | PET Physics (2D/3D) |
| 26-Feb-02 | No class | Spring Break |
| 04-Mar-02 | Arnold | MR spectroscopy |
| 11-Mar-02 | Gotman | EEG |
| 18-Mar-02 | Soualmi | Ultrasound |
| 25-Mar-02 | Paus | TMS/Functional Activation Study Design |
| 01-Apr-02 | Dahger | Physiological kinetic modeling |
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Course Director: Prof. L. Collins