Seungkyun's Magnetic Resonance Life Blog: Teaching

Spring 2021, Department of Biomedical Engineering
-BME Electromagnetics 1 (undergraduate, on-line)

Textbook: Purcell & Morin, Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Ed. (Chs. 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9)

-Topics in MRI Systems Engineering (IPHC graduate, on-line)

Main contents

Superconducting magnets
Gradient coils
RF coils
Compact, low-field, ultrahigh-field, hybrid MRI

Fall 2020, Department of Biomedical Engineering
-Introductory BME Laboratory 1
Weekly labs every Friday for sophomore students, covering basic electronics and selected experiments from the GBME research labs.

-Physical Principles of MRI 1 (graduate, on-line)
Textbook: Haacke et al., Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Physical Principles and Sequence Design.

Spring 2020, Department of Biomedical Engineering
-BME Electromagnetics 1
Textbook: Purcell & Morin, Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Ed. (Chs. 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9)
-BME Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Textbook: Engel & Reid, Thermodynamics, Statistical thermodynamics, and Kinetics 3rd Ed.
[Course cancelled] This course will hopefully re-open in 2021. In the meantime, the first two lecture files will be made available to all interested students.

Fall 2019, Department of Biomedical Engineering
-BME Electromagnetic 2
This time all the homework problems will be announced at the beginning of the course. Lecture materials will largely follow the contents of 2018.

Spring 2019, Department of Biomedical Engineering
-BME Electromagnetics 1
Textbook: Purcell & Morin, Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Ed. (Chs. 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9)
-BME Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Textbook: Engel & Reid, Thermodynamics, Statistical thermodynamics, and Kinetics 3rd Ed. (Chs. 1,2,3,5,6,7,12,13,14,15,16,17)
-(Graduate) Electromagnetics for Medical Device Research

Fall 2018, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Course title: BME Electromagnetics 2
Textbook: Purcell & Morin, Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Ed.
Reitz, Milford, Christy, Foundations of electromagnetic theory, 4th Ed.

Electric fields in matter
Magnetic fields in matter
Electromagnetic wave propagation in matter

Course title: Special Topics in MRI (a.k.a. Advanced MRI, graduate course)
Syllabus [tentative]
week1 Sept 7  [Introduction 7T opening ceremony]
week2 Sept 14 Magnet technologies
week3 Sept 21 Shim technologies
week4 Sept 28 [No class - School holiday]
week5  Oct 5    Gradient technologies (1)
week6 Oct 12   Gradient technologies (2)
week7 Oct 19   RF transmit technologies
week8 Oct 26  [No class - Midterm week]
week9  Nov 2    RF receive technologies
week10 Nov 9   [ISMRM 2019 abstract review]
week11 Nov 16   Compact MRI
week12 Nov 23   Magnetometers based on MR
week13 Nov 30   Hybrid MRI - PET and LINAC
week14 Dec 7    Hyperpolarization
week15 Dec 14  [Student presentations]
week16 Dec 21   Term report deadline

Spring 2018, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Course title: BME Electromagnetics 1
This course will largely follow the class contents of the Spring 2017 course with the same title. I will try to include more discussions on numerical simulations of the electromagnetic fields, and more examples will be included from MRI engineering.

Fall 2017, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Course title: BME Electromagnetics 2
Textbook: Purcell & Morin, Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Ed.
                 Reitz, Milford, Christy, Foundations of electromagnetic theory, 4th Ed.
Main contents

Electric fields in matter
Magnetic fields in matter
Electromagnetic wave propagation in matter
Special topics

Fall 2017, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Course title: Special Topics in MRI (graduate course)
Main contents

Ultra-high-field MRI
fMRI and CEST/MT principles
B1 mapping and MR-based electrical properties tomography
B0 mapping and susceptibility mapping

Spring 2017 Department of Biomedical Engineering
Course title: BME Electromagnetics 1
Textbook: Purcell & Morin, Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Ed. (former Berkeley Physics Course 2.)
Syllabus [tentative]
week1 March 6,8     Ch.1. Electric charges and fields (1.1~1.10)
week2 March 13,15   Ch.2. Electric potential (2.1~2.10)
week3 March 20,22   Ch.2-3. Conductors and capacitors (2.11~3.5)
week4 March 27,29   Ch.4. Electric currents (4.1~4.5,4.8)
week5 April 3,5     Ch.5. Moving charges (TBD)
week6 April 10,12   Ch.6. Magnetic field (6.1~6.5)
week7 April 17,19   Ch.6. Magnetic field (6.6~6.10)
week8 April 24,26 [midterm exam][ISMRM]
week9 May 1,3[Buddha's birthday] Ch.7. Induction (7.1~7.3)
week10 May 8,10     Ch.7. Induction (7.4~7.9)
week11 May 15,17    Ch.8. AC circuit (8.1~8.6)
week12 May 22,24    Ch.9. Maxwell's equations (9.1~9.3)
week13 May 29,31    Ch.9. Maxwell's equations (9.4~9.6)
week14 June 5,7     Ch.10.E-fields in matter (10.1~10.6,10.15)
week15 June 12,14   Ch.11.Magnetic fields in matter (11.1,2,4,6,7,11)
week16 June 19,21 [final exam]

Fall 2016, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Course title: MRI Engineering 2
Syllabus [tentative]
week1 Sept 1   Review of conventional MRI engineering (1)
week2 Sept 8   Review of conventional MRI engineering (2)
week3 Sept 15 [No class - Chuseok]
week4 Sept 22 Compact MRI - superconducting magnet
week5  Sept 29 [QSM workshop week]
week6 Oct 6   [Biomagnetism conference week]
week7 Oct 13   Compact MRI - permanent magnet
week8 Oct 20   Compact MRI - ultra low field
week9  Oct 27   Hybrid MRI - MR-PET
week10 Nov 3   Hybrid MRI - MR-EEG
week11 Nov 10   Hybrid MRI - MR-ultrasound and hyperthermia
week12 Nov 17   Hybrid MRI - MR-radiation therapy
week13 Nov 24   Quantitative MRI - MR thermometry
week14 Dec 1    Quantitative MRI - electrical properties
week15 Dec 8   Quantitative MRI - magnetic susceptibility
week16 Dec 15   Term report deadline

[2019 ISMRM]
MREIT, Rosalind Sadleir: https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/19MPresentations/eduvids/16/513D-F/0730/ (for phantom, see 6 min 24 sec ~ 9 min 32 sec)
[2016 ISMRM]
Portable MRI: http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/W04.htm
PET-MRI: http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/WE02.htm
Systems Engineering -- Shim(30min), MR-LINAC(30min), PNS(30min), SAR(30min) http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/WE12.htm
MR-LINAC (25min)http://cds.ismrm.org/protected/16MPresentations/videos/7110/
My session 2016: Basics(30min), Systems(30min), Safety(30min) http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/WE11.htm
QSM(many lectures) http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/WE21.htm
Interventional (50min) http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/S04a.htm
QSM(50min) http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/S09b.htm
Hyperpolarization(50min) http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/S09a.htm
Neuro-interventional(25min) http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/S04c.htm
Ultrahigh fields(30min) http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/Th01.htm
MRI-radiotherapy(18min) http://cds.ismrm.org/protected/16MPresentations/videos/Plenary_11_0850_Lagendijk/
JB 2015 head-only grad (10min)
http://cds.ismrm.org/protected/15MPresentations/1019/
John Huston 2015 (10min)
http://cds.ismrm.org/protected/15MPresentations/0971/

MR-FUS oral session (application-oriented)
http://www.ismrm.org/16/program_files/O03.htm

[2015 ISMRM]
C13(60min) http://www.ismrm.org/15/program_files/M04.htm
Radiotherapy(2hrs) http://www.ismrm.org/15/program_files/W02.htm
Economics(1.5hrs) http://www.ismrm.org/15/program_files/W06.htm
TBI with MEG (20min) http://cds.ismrm.org/protected/15MPresentations/1074/
High-field MRI (37min) http://cds.ismrm.org/protected/15MPresentations/8201/
GE PET/MR eposter (<10min) http://cds.ismrm.org/protected/15MPresentations/3079/

[2014 ISMRM]
Simon, Tesla Eng. (22min) http://cds.ismrm.org/protected/14MPresentations/0232/

Fall 2016, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Course title: Electromagnetism in biomedicine
Textbook: "Bioelectromagnetism" by Malmivuo & Plonsey (1995)
Syllabus [tentative]
week1 Sept 6  Ch1. Introduction to bio-electromagnetism
week2 Sept 13 Ch2+5. Nerve and muscle cells
week3 Sept 20 Ch3. Subthreshold membrane phenomena
week4 Sept 27 [QSM workshop week]
week5 Oct 4   [Biomagnetism conference week]
week6 Oct 11 Ch4. Active Behavior of the membrane (1)
week7 Oct 18 Ch4. Active Behavior of the membrane (2)
week8 Oct 25 Ch11. Theoretical methods
week9 Nov 1   Ch12. Theory of biomagnetic measurements
week10 Nov 8 Ch13. EEG
week11 Nov 15 Ch14. MEG
week12 Nov 22 Ch21. Functional electric stimulation
week13 Nov 29 Ch22. Magnetic stimulation of neural tissue
week14 Dec 6  Tissue electrical property measurement
week15 Dec 13 Tissue magnetic susceptibility measurement
week16 Dec 20 Final exam (take-home)

Spring 2016, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Course title: MRI Engineering (I)

Syllabus

week1  March 3  Superconducting magnet
week2  March 10
week3  March 17
week4  March 24 To be determined (KSMRM)
week5  March 31
week6  April 7  Gradient coil
week7  April 14
week8  April 21
week9  April 28
week10 May (5)  Midterm report out 
week11 May 12   No class (ISMRM)
week12 May 19   RF coil
week13 May 26
week14 June 2   Safety
week15 June 9   MR Systems
week16 June 16  Final exam

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