Period (from – till): 15 November 2021 - 04 February 2022
Course coordinator:
Renée Allebrandi, MA (course contact person)
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN EINDHOVEN
This cross-departmental course teaches the fundamentals of electromagnetic field generation in MRI. The course will be provided by electrical engineering and biomedical engineering combined and will cover topics such as Biot-Savart law, gradient coils, transmission line theory, RF antenna/coils, B1+/B1-, noise, SNR, SAR, parallel imaging, numerical simulations etc. The course will be designed along the principles of challenge based learning. Therefore, the course is organized around one final goal: to simulate, build and test an RF coil for ultrahigh field MRI. For this purpose, the students are divided into multi-disciplinary groups of 3 to 5 students.
All corresponding theory will be provided to the students in pre-made modules. Modules may consist of a combination of lectures, video-lectures, reading material and exercises. Alongside of these modules, the students are expected to make progress on their design. Student groups will be supervised and monitored by a PhD-student during the course to safeguard their progress. At the end, when all coil arrays have been built, all student groups will travel to Utrecht (or use any other open-architecture MRI system) to test their coil.
Assessment is 50% based on the practical results and another 50% based on one final exam.
Literature/study material used:
Lecture slides and exercises
Registration:
Please register at TU/e, course code 5LPE0, at least 4 weeks before start of the course. Osiris registration will be done retroactively when results from the TU/e are received.
Mandatory:
No.
Optional for students in other GSLS Master’s programme:
No.