Welcome! In this course learners will develop expertise in basic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) physics and principles and gain knowledge of many different data acquisition strategies in MRI. In particular, learners will get to know what is magnetic resonance phenomenon, how magnetic resonance signals are generated, how an image can be formulated using MRI, how soft tissue contrast can change with imaging parameters. Also introduced will be MR imaging sequences of spin echo, gradient echo, fast spin echo, echo planar imaging, inversion recovery, etc.
This course gives detail knowledge on MRI machine, image formation and data collection process in simplified way. Thank you very much to coursera team and KAIST university
Excellent course. I used to work in MRI in late 80s so I wanted to review the material and update my knowledge. The course served my purpose. Thank you Prof. Sung-Hong Park!
It is an excellent course for those who are from basic and those who are working on it. The contents and teaching methods are also very good.
I need more detail in concept explanation and examples given from real life analogies.
Very good to understand more about the Basic Physics of MRI! You will get more
Excellent course, clear explanation and in details on MRI Fundamentals.
Precise, and to the point. One gains more understanding as the course progresses. During the last 2 weeks things fall into place very well. Thank you very much!
provides good knowledge of MRI function. this is not a fundamental course this is a bit advanced. good knowledge of calculus is needed
Thanks sir. I learned many knowledge. I wish all students are learn from your institute. because your institute are best...
Excellent Course, I found it very comprehensive and useful. Sometimes difficult expecially the math parts considering my background as a Neuroradiologist. Thank You.
Its very informative. At first i thought it was easy but more i go inside i was like pretty scared. Thnakgod i completed this MOOC.
Amazing! Great Pacing and awesome quizzes. I had a really fun time learning this one!
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This course gives detail knowledge on MRI machine, image formation and data collection process in simplified way. Thank you very much to coursera team and KAIST university
It is very useful to start with MRI, and I am really happy that it exists. However, it is a pity that a lot of questions have typos, and sometimes it is completely impossible to answer the question using just information from the lectures.
Excellent Course, I found it very comprehensive and useful. Sometimes difficult expecially the math parts considering my background as a Neuroradiologist. Thank You.
Won't recommend this course to anyone who wants to understand a convulated topic like MRI. The communication skill of the Instructor was poor due to his speaking. Sometimes, I couldn't understand what words he had been uttering. The quizzes also had wrong answers so you will need to do trial and error. Although I am from engineering background, I had a foundation to Fourier transform and mathematical operations like this. Yet, i failed to get the essence of this. So, assume if you are not from engineering background, then, best of luck!
I definitely recommend this course for people who are new to MRI. I am from a pure computer science background, with Masters in Machine Learning working for a medical imaging AI company. I started with Dwight Nishimura's book, but the mathematical concepts were complicated and I could not get a proper head start. This course introduced all the core concepts beautifully and coherently. With the skills I obtained from this course, I can now understand and appreciate the basic terminologies used in MR literature. Now I am going to try reading Nishimura's book and also watch Stanford RAD229 videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgAoFeFMKQ-f1XVPrFBslQ) and I am confident that I will be able to understand the advanced concepts discussed there. One minor problem in this course, as others mentioned, is the instructor's accent; but it is not a deal breaker. After a few videos I got used to the accent.
Basically, the lecturer is just reading off the entire slide, with little or no further explanation. No lecture notes are given at all. The voice isn't very clear too. But the overall curriculum is quite rigorous and difficult, and some mathematics foundations in Fourier transform are required.
A waste of time. The instructor does not seem to understand some of the concepts he is teaching. He is inconsistent in using notation and terminology. The test ask questions about topics not covered in the lectures.
One will be more confused about MRI after taking the course rather than learning anything.
Excellent course. I used to work in MRI in late 80s so I wanted to review the material and update my knowledge. The course served my purpose.
Thank you Prof. Sung-Hong Park!
Excellent course, clear explanation and in details on MRI Fundamentals.
thank you for the great information you have gifted
Very hlpful and awsome course
Overall the course is very good. Cover all the basics concepts in decent detail. I can surely say that i have more knowledge of how an MRI works than before i started the course. Accent sometimes makes it hard to understand what is being said and the subtitles also don't make much sense. I found that Extra material was not given to understand more about the subject. A book or links for further exploration would have been better.
Good MRI course on MRI fundamentals. Beware it has relatively high emphasis on mathematical formulas. Would love to have a 2nd course like this with more emphasis on clinically used sequences and common MR artifacts.
Fair enough, but may be difficult for someone with weak physics & Maths ... Strange Physics and Formulae ahead !!!!
The instructor was difficult to follow. More analogies are needed to explain the complex concepts in this course.
Deals more with physics part of MRI scans than the biology part.
Extremely poor speaking skills, grammatical errors make the course draining. Very technical subject, made worse by the speaker
Using animations would've been most educative, because sometimes the concepts are very abstract and hard to imagine.
Very difficult to understand Mr. Park. Subtitles not helpful.
+ The slides are informative enough to have an overall understanding of the concepts - The slides are too packed with information The videos are just the instructor reading out the content without any additional explanation or clarification Hard to follow the instructor due to language-related issues such as unclear pronunciation, incomplete sentences, and a lack of linkers Some of the concepts are not explained clearly and are assumed to be known in later weeks Inadequate and unclear explanation of the mathematical components by the instructor Except for a few examples, there is a significant lack of real-world examples to highlight the differences between the techniques and the end result Lack of additional resources for learners to study the concepts and formulas on their own