MRI Fundamentals

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MRI Fundamentals

Instructor: Sung-Hong Park

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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8 hours to complete

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

475 reviews

Intermediate level

Some related experience required

Flexible schedule

8 hours to complete

Learn at your own pace

93%

Most learners liked this course

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Welcome! In this course learners will develop expertise in basic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) physics and principles and gain knowledge of many different data acquisition strategies in MRI. In particular, learners will get to know what is magnetic resonance phenomenon, how magnetic resonance signals are generated, how an image can be formulated using MRI, how soft tissue contrast can change with imaging parameters. Also introduced will be MR imaging sequences of spin echo, gradient echo, fast spin echo, echo planar imaging, inversion recovery, etc.

Welcome! This first week you will be introduced to the course and key principles of mri. You will learn what is mri and the major components of mri.

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This week, you will explore what is magnetic resonance phenomeon. We will also guide you to what is relaxation and how RF apply to cause magnetic resonance.

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4 videos1 assignment

In this module, you will learn signal processing theory. You will be exposed to the most important concepts in mri which contain fourier transform and nyquist sampling therom.

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5 videos1 assignment

In lecture 4, we will expose you to how to sequence gradient pulses to get an mr image. You will also learn about sequence gradient pulses which include slice selection, frequency encoding and phase encoding.

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5 videos1 assignment

In this week, learners will get to know how soft tissue contrast can change with imaging parameters. We will also guide you what is field of view and how to measure resolution.

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5 videos1 assignment

In this module, you will learn about mri data acquisition strategies. Also, you will be exposed to MR imaging sequences of spin echo, gradient echo, fast spin echo, echo planar imaging, and inversion recovery.

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5 videos1 assignment

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Sung-Hong Park

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)

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Reviewed on Apr 23, 2020

Very interesting and educating course. This is my first experience with magnetic forces and imaging, and it was very clear and easy to understand. Thank you!

Reviewed on Nov 23, 2020

A great introduction to MRI course for those with basic knowledge of Physics.

Reviewed on Sep 11, 2020

This course gives detail knowledge on MRI machine, image formation and data collection process in simplified way. Thank you very much to coursera team and KAIST university

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