Tandon
School of Engineering of New York University
EL6813/BE6203/G16.4426 ---- Medical Imaging
Fall 2017
Course Webpage: http://eeweb.poly.edu/~yao/EL6813
Course
Description: This course introduces the physics, instrumentation,
and signal processing methods used in X-ray (projection radiography), X-ray
computed tomography, nuclear medicine (SPECT/PET), optical imaging, ultrasound
imaging, and magnetic resonance imaging. Co-listed as EL6813 and BE6203. 3
credits. (note: EL6813 was formally listed as EL5823)
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Undergraduate level courses
in multivariable calculus (MA 2112, MA 2122), physics (PH 2033), probability
(MA 3012), signals and systems (EE 3054). Students who do not have prior courses
in signals and systems must take EL6113/BE6403 SIGNALS, SYSTEMS AND TRANSFORMS
as a prerequisite; EL5123/BE6223 IMAGE PROCESSING is also recommended but not
required.
Course
Director:
· Prof. Yao Wang (NYU-Tandon), MTC2 9.122, (718)-260-3469, yaowang
at nyu.edu, http://eeweb.poly.edu/~yao
Instructors:
· Dr. Jonathan Mamou (NYU-Tandon), MTC2 9.122, jonathan.mamou at nyu.edu,
·
Prof. Daniel Turnbull (NYU School of Medicine), 212-263-7262, daniel.turnbull at nyumc.org, http://www.med.nyu.edu/biosketch/turnbd01/
· Prof. Steven Baete (NYU School of Medicine), 212-263-4861, steven.baete
at nyumc.org, https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/steven-h-baete
· Prof. Yu-Shin Ding (NYU
School of Medicine),
212-263-6605, Yu-Shin.Ding at nyumc.org
http://chemistry.fas.nyu.edu/object/yu-shinding.html
Teaching Assistant:
·
Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani (NYU Tandon
School of Engineering, Graduate Student), akg404 at nyu.edu
Course Schedule: Fri. 10 AM - 12:30 PM
(Weeks 1 to 7 and Final Exam)
Fri. 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Weeks 8 to 14)
Lecture
Location:
Tandon (Weeks 1 to 7 and
Final Exam): 2 Metro Tech Center, Rm 9.007, Brooklyn Campus (NYU Tandon)
SOM CBI (Weeks 8 to 14): Center for Biomedical Imaging, 660 First
Avenue (corner with 38th Street), New York, NY 10016. Please go to Third Floor
large conf. room.
Office Hour: Jonathan Mamou: Fridays 1-3 PM (2 Metro Tech Center, Rm 10.032) or appointment by email. For other instructors: appointment through email.
Text Book: J. L. Prince and J. M. Links, Medical imaging: signals and
systems, 2/E, Prentice Hall, 2015. ISBN-10: 0132145189. Link to book site; Errata for the second edition, Version
2.06 September, 2015 (pdf)
Recommended
Book
(Contain more clinical information): B.
Smith and A. Webb, Introduction to Medical Imaging: Physics, Engineering, and
Clinical Applications, Cambridge
University Press, ISBN 9780521190657. E-book available. Link to ebook site.
Homework policy: Homework will be assigned weekly and collected
a week later. Homework solution will be provided the following week. Select
homework problem will be graded and count towards the final grade. Exams will
be primarily based on homework problems. There will also be several MATLAB
assignments, and these will be collected and counted towards the final grade.
Grading
Policy: Exam 1: 40%, Exam 2: 40%, Homework
Assignments: 10%, Programming Assignments: 10%.
Tentative Course Schedule
(Lecture notes below
are inherited from previous offerings. Some may be updated before the actual
lecture)
·
Week
1 (9/8) (Tandon): Jonathan Mamou,
Overview of various medical imaging modalities (Chap 1); Review of signals and
systems basic concepts (chap 2); Image quality metrics (Chap 3); Lecture Note
(updated 9/6/2017)
·
Week
2 (9/15 (Tandon):
Jonathan Mamou, Physics of radiography (Chap
4); Lecture note (updated 9/21/2017).
·
Week
3 (9/22) (Tandon): Jonathan Mamou,
Projection radiography (conventional X-ray) (Chap 5); Lecture note (updated
9/21/2017)
·
Week
4 (9/29) (Tandon): Jonathan Mamou,
X-ray computed tomography (CT): Instrumentation; Image reconstruction (Radon
transform, back projection, filtered back-projection); Image quality (Chap
6) Part I
Lecture note (updated 10/13/2016)
·
Week
5 (10/6) (Tandon): continue the previous topic, Part II Lecture note (updated 10/13/2016)
·
Week
6 (10/13) (Tandon), Jonathan Mamou,
Nuclear medicine: physics (chap7), SPECT
and PET (Chap 9); Lecture note (updated
10/13/2016)
·
Week 7 (10/20): Midterm
Exam, to be held at NYU Tandon
·
Week
8 (10/27) (SOM CBI): Yu-Shin Ding, PET: Tracer development, drug
pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, preclinical and translational research,
clinical applications. Recommended readings: paper1, paper2,
paper3. (Please visit nyuclasses
for the lecture note).
·
Week
9 (11/3) (SOM CBI): Daniel Turnbull, Physics of ultrasound (Chap 10): Wave
equation, Acoustic waves, Wave propagation, Beam pattern formation and
focusing. Lecture note. (updated
11/3/2016)
·
Week
10 (11/10) (SOM CBI): Daniel Turnbull, Ultrasound imaging (chap 11):
Instrumentation (transducers, probes, etc.), Pulse-echo equation, Ultrasound
imaging principles. Lecture note.
(updated 11/5/2016)
·
Week
11 (11/17) (SOM CBI) Riccardo Lattanzi, Physics of
magnetic resonance (chap 12): Magnetization, Precession and Larmor
frequency, RF excitation, Relaxation. Lecture
note. (updated 12/4/2015)
Files containing video shown in class. (caution:
35MB) Lecture
note by Yao Wang (uploaded 3/25/2013)
·
Week
12 (12/1) (SOM CBI): Riccardo Lattanzi, Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Instrumentation, Data acquisition, Image
reconstruction, Image quality. Lecture note
(updated 12/4/2015) video of RF
excitation animation. Lecture notes by Yao Wang: part 1, part 2 (uploaded 3/25/2013). MATLAB
homework (updated 12/1/2016. Due: TBA). data for
MATLAB assignment (updated 12/1/2016)
·
Week
13 (12/8) (SOM CBI): Riccardo Lattanzi, Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging:
Diffusion MRI, Functional MRI. Lecture note. (updated
2/28/2013). A review article on Diffusion weighted
imaging for MRI (recommended reading, uploaded 2/28/13). Lecture note on fMRI by Yao Wang (uploaded 3/25/2013)
· Week 14 (12/15) (SOM
CBI): Tour of the NYU Center for Biomedical Imaging: Tour of the RF Lab and explanation of RF
coils components, Tour of the MRI facilities (including a 7T whole body
scanner), Practical session at the MRI console.
· Week 15 (12/22) Final Exam, to be held at NYU Tandon
Sample exams
· Sample midterm exam (F06), Sample midterm exam (F08), solution to F08 midterm, Sample final exam, Final exam F08, Solution to F08 final exam, Final Exam F09, solution to F09 final exam. F11 Midterm exam, solution, S12 midterm
exam, solution, S12 final exam problem and solution. S13 midterm problem, solution. S13
final problem, solution, S14 Spring midterm exam, solution. F14 midterm with solution. F14 Final exam. Solution. F15 Midterm, solution F15
Final Exam with Solution. F16 Midterm, Solution. F16 Final Exam with Solution.
Last updated: 9/21/2017, Yao Wang