I was recently asked to give a little lab presentation on basic MRI physics to the clinicians in our program. As this is not a talk I've given in many years, I didn't want to create a new lecture from scratch, so I figured I'd search the web for publicly available lectures I could borrow from. It dawned on me, of course. that NITRC would be a great place to collect many of these as well. So, I thought I'd start a list in this forum thread (we can move to a separate forum or wiki if this reaches critical mass). Note: One criteria I applied is that I'm looking for slideshow like content, not textbook content, suitable for a small lecture.

This list is not comprehensive, it's just the first couple of the top google hits on a "basic mri physics lecture" google search that I happened to look at:

- http://users.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~karla/grad_... Karla Miller, FMRIB - cool simulations
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/mri/lectures/gpl_p... Gary P. Liney, Yorkshire Cancer Research
- http://www.ece.unm.edu/~vcalhoun/courses... Vince D Calhoun, ECE595/CS591/PSYCH650
- http://www.mri-tutorial.com/tutorials/mr...

Well, I could go on forever here, but I have to go give this presentation now.

Looking forward to hearing other peoples favorite publicly accessible MRI physics teaching materials!

The website e-mri.org used to have excellent interactive online demonstrations of basic concepts regarding spin states, sequences, and k-space, but it doesn't seem to be available anymore. I did save quite a few screen captures and included them in a lecture I gave a year ago in case anyone is interested:

http://www.mindboggle.info/lectures/PETc...

It also includes information from the website: http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/insid...

Cheers,
@rno

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arno klein
arno@binarybottle.com
asst. professor of clinical neurobiology
columbia university