Syllabus

Syllabus

Polarizing and Resonance Imaging of Noble Gas Nuclei, Spring, 2002

Week 1 Overview

Week 2 Spin-exchange optical pumping

Week 3 Helium-xenon gas differences, scaling up production

Week 4 Metastability exchange optical pumping

Week 5 Magnetic resonance; T1, T2 relaxation; chemical shift

Week 6 Imaging basics

Week 7 Imaging, T1, T2 diffusion weighting; spectral selectivity

Week 8 Imaging signal-to-noise ratio, equipment

Week 9 Lung physiology, biology, pathology

Week 10 Lung imaging, fast sequences

Week 11 Chemical shift imaging, brain imaging dynamics

Week 12 Oxygen partial-pressure imaging (Deninger)

Week 13 Diffusion imaging

Week 14 Projects

Week 15 Projects