Taught or Co-taught by Brian Hargreaves

Medical Imaging Systems II:  Stanford's original introductory "chalk-board" course studies MRI from a systems viewpoint, using physics and engineering principles including the Fourier transform and statistical noise descriptions.

MRI Signals and Sequences: Advanced engineering course offers numerical and intuitive approaches to MRI signal calculation, corrections for system imperfections, contrast mechansims and practical pulse sequences.

MRI Programming Topics: Introduction to programming a GE MRI scanner using EPIC (Environment for Pulse Programming in C) - offered as a video series.

Other Stanford Medical Imaging Courses

Medical imaging courses at Stanford include MRI physics, image reconstruction, RF pulse design, MR signals and sequences, and MRI programming.

This Continuing Medical Education (CME) course offers lectures from Stanford Radiology faculty, designed for practicing radiologists and MR technologists. The workshop focuses on new strategies to correctly interpret common MRI exams, recognize image quality issues, and execute strategies to correct them, and reviews the underlying principles of MR physics and image protocol decisions with colleagues to improve team efficiency. For more information, visit the course website.

A series of recorded short lectures on MRI physics topics is available here. These include principles of polarization, excitation, relaxation, image formation and contrast in MRI.  They may be of interest to radiologists and engineers, hoping to provide some intuition without equations!

Our group is involved in the NIH-sponsored programs "Training in Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation" (graduate student level) and the "Stanford Cancer Imaging Training Program" (post-doctoral level).