Computer vision is not all AI. There is a lot of subjects to study. I started with this book https://www.amazon.com.br/Digital-Image-Processing-Rafael-Gonzalez/dp/013168728X

It cover the basis and introduces all the themes to go on with your studies. Good luck and have fun.

If you want to learn more about image processing with FPGA's I recommend this book
https://www.amazon.com/Design-Embedded-Image-Processing-FPGAs-ebook/dp/B005FXVEDY

As for which board to buy, I'd buy something that is a Xilinx Zynq, so it's easier to get camera data into the FPGA fabric, process, and then look at the results.

Looking for PDF

https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Science-Imaging-Magdy-Khalil/dp/3319400681/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1537223169&sr=8-2&keywords=Basic+Science+of+PET+Imaging

Basic Science of PET Imaging

ISBN-13: 978-3319400686

ISBN-10: 3319400681

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Since you mention you are working with the 15454 product, I would recommend https://www.amazon.com/Optical-Network-Design-Implementation-Alwayn/dp/1587051052/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1489928038&sr=1-3&keywords=cisco+optical+network . Between that and the reference guide from Cisco on your software version, you can learn how to do an awful lot of it. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/optical-networking/ons-15454-sonet-multiservice-provisioning-platform-mspp/model.html

My undergrad advisor gave me this book to read for a project that was sorta kinda MRI related, although I never actually got past the first couple chapters. It seems pretty comprehensive, but I doubt it's worth the current going price.

Thanks for the help! The diagram is from the book by Haacke et. al. and they say that "SSI (steady state incoherent) imaging is based on the elimination, or the 'spoling', of any remnant transverse magnetization prior to the occurrence of each new rf pulse."

Anyway, I didn't understand your comment too well:

1) What are banding artifacts? Are they the same as the "zebra stripes" you get for asymmetric gradient echoes?

2) Yeah rf spoiling + gradient spoiling should eliminate the transverse magnetization but I can't see where there is gradient spoiling and/ or rf spoiling in the given sequence diagram. To me it looks like just a Spin echo sequence with two echoes. So where does the spoiling take place?

Cheers!

The source of this image is Microcosmos: Discovering The World Through Microscopic Images From 20 X to Over 22 Million X Magnification by Brandon Boll (Amazon link). The Daily Mail wrote a review including several other images from the book a couple of months ago.