A Laboratory Demonstration Of Spatial Encoding In Mri
- Conference
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Chicago, Illinois
- Publication Date
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June 18, 2006
- Start Date
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June 18, 2006
- End Date
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June 21, 2006
- ISSN
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2153-5965
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Biomedical
- Page Count
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25
- Page Numbers
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11.58.1 - 11.58.25
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--1124
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https://peer.asee.org/1124
- Download Count
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683
Paper Authors
Markus Billeter Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Institute for Biomedical
MARKUS BILLETER is a MS student in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He is currently working on his Master Thesis at Northwestern University which is the last step to receive his MS degree.
Grace M. Nijm Northwestern University
GRACE M. NIJM earned her B.S. in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2004 and her B.S. in Computer Science from Benedictine University in the same year. In 2005, she was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in ECE at Northwestern University.
Bugrahan Yalvac Northwestern University
BUGRAHAN YALVAC is a postdoctoral fellow in assessment studies for the VaNTH ERC at Northwestern University. He holds B.S. degrees in Physics and Physics Education and an M.S. degree in Science Education from METU, Ankara. For his Ph.D. studies at Penn State, he majored in Curriculum and Instruction and minored in Science, Technology, and Society (STS).
Alan Sahakian Northwestern University
ALAN V. SAHAKIAN earned the Ph.D. in ECE at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1984. Since then he has been at Northwestern University where he is currently Professor of BME and ECE and associate chair of ECE. He is also a member of the Associate Professional Staff of Evanston Hospital. He has worked as a Senior Electrical Engineer at Medtronic, Inc. and as a Resident Visiting Scholar at AFIT/WPAFB.
Abstract
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A Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Encoding in MRI
Abstract The solution at hand describes a low-cost, small-scale MRI system which has been shown to demonstrate 1-dimensional spatial encoding. The main motivation for constructing the apparatus is its need for educational and demonstration purposes in biomedical engineering courses. The hardware and software is designed to be as simple as possible. A MATLAB program directly controls a microprocessor over a serial RS232 line. Our evaluation with four selected students revealed that they enjoyed completing the ac- tivity and they improved their understanding of some basic MRI concepts. Students reported that the system made the MRI concepts become visible and easy to comprehend.
1 Introduction Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has not only become one of the most impor- tant diagnostic tools in medicine, but there are also MRI courses available at nearly all university biomedical engineering departments. The reasons for its widespread popularity are obvious. MRI is capable of producing high resolution images, see figure 1; this allows diagnosis of a large number of health problems and disorders such as tumors, abscesses, blood flow congestions, heart malfunctions and joint problems. For example, MR Angiography deals with the localization and imaging of blood vessels by observing signal amplitude changes and the resultant phase. Furthermore, there are fields other than medicine which benefit from MRI, such as psychology, in which MRI is used to study brain activity in different kinds of situations.
MRI not only provides high resolution images, but also provides significant
Billeter, M., & Nijm, G. M., & Yalvac, B., & Sahakian, A. (2006, June), A Laboratory Demonstration Of Spatial Encoding In Mri Paper presented at 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. 10.18260/1-2--1124
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