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MRI Basics: What Do I Need?

In which I describe the components of an MRI scanner… So following on from last week – other than a lot of money to pay for it all*, what do you need for an operational MRI scanner? *Scanners are often...

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MRI Scanner Cake 2013

In which I bake another, more ambitious, MRI scanner cake… The ISBE annual BBQ was on Friday so I had to once again attempt to bake an MRI scanner cake. I decided to go for a more realistic one than...

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Wednesday Wisdom: Academia vs. Industry

In which I post a YouTube video on Academia vs. Industry… Tom Out!

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Warming Camomile & PhD 3rd Year Retrospective

In which I talk about my approaching final year and try a warming tea… So in a few days I should be officially into my fourth and final year of my PhD.  That means I’m hopefully one year away from...

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Osmanthus Green: Thesis, YouTube, Update!

In which I review some floral green tea and update you on my life… Thesis Writing So thesis writing is fully under-way  now and my supervisors assure me that writing will get harder and longer as it...

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Pulse Sequence Diagrams Using Metapost

In which I use MetaPost to generate publication quality pulse sequence diagrams… Pulse sequences are the series of radio-frequency pulses required to generate an MR image. If you are an MR Physicist...

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Proper Gradients for MetaPost Pulse Sequences

In which I improve upon the previous post… In yesterday’s post I talked about using MetaPost to generate Pulse Sequence Diagrams for MRI documents. I have been using this to make nice diagrams for my...

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Word 2010: Footnotes and Mendeley

In which I discuss getting footnotes and Mendeley references to look nice in Word… I may not have mentioned it before on this blog but I am a Mendeley advisor and a strong advocate of this free...

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Tom 3.5 & Life Plan 2014

In which I talk about fitness and the road ahead… Tom 3.5 So once again I am unhappy with my level of physical fitness having let it slide a lot with work and other stress getting in the way. I need a...

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Fancy Thesis Tables in LaTeX: An Idiots Guide

In which I provide a template for generating fancy, production quality tables for theses… , as I’ve mentioned previously, is a document preparation system well known for its brilliant equations and can...

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Preparing for Bayesian Mathematics in Python

In which I run through setting up a Python environment on Windows… I’m going to preface this post by saying I’m not breaking any new ground here. As is often the case, though, a beginner wanting to...

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