Methods for MRI RF Pulse Design and Image Reconstruction

First of all, I would like to thank my adviser, Doug Noll, for picking me to join this lab about four and half years ago when I was still a senior undergraduate student in China. Before I came to US, I was told that as an international PhD student, my adviser was going to be the most important people in my life in US other than my family and parents. Now I feel very lucky to have Doug to be this important people. He is very knowledgeable and nice to answer any questions I have in research. From him, I learned how to do good research and how to make impact to the field. Other than research, he has been very helpful in advising me to choose career paths. He also provides the maximal degrees of freedom for me to balance my life and work, which was especially helpful for me to get over the tough time since this spring. I would also like to thank my adviser, Jeff Fessler, who had been generously helping with my research and study as an “unofficial ” adviser for most of the time. If it is lucky to have a great adviser, then I feel even luckier to have two great advisers to be the “important ” people in my life. He is always so passionate and curious about any topics I bring up during the meeting, and he is also very creative and always ha