Abstract #2484
A hardware-independent environment for MR acquisition and simulation
Kelvin Layton 1 , Stefan Kroboth 1 , Jochen Leupold 1 , Huijun Yu 1 , Feng Jia 1 , Sebastian Littin 1 , Tony Stcker 2 , and Maxim Zaitsev 1
1
Medical Physics, University Medical Center
Freiburg, Freiburg, BW, Germany,
2
German
Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, NRW,
Germany
This work presents a sequence programming environment
that is vendor-independent and supports rapid sequence
prototyping through simulation and acquisition. The
environment provides a drag-and-drop programming
interface that allows researchers to run sequences on
any hardware platform. Central to this work, is a new
hardware-independent sequence file format that can
easily be converted into hardware-dependent instructions
for execution on an MR scanner. This is demonstrated by
using a single sequence file to obtain experimental data
using scanners from two different MR manufacturers. The
improved workflow dramatically reduces sequence
development time, provides new teaching opportunities
and promotes vendor-independence across institutions.
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