Synopsis

This session will highlight some of the open source software resources available to the MR community. There will also be some tips on what steps an MR developer can take to keep their code open and dogma free.

Introduction

In MR development there are two main, and often separate, codebases; one for pulse sequence and one for reconstruction development. The pulse sequence side is typically incorporated into multiple systems with a very strict dependance on vendor selected hardware and architecture, making it naturally very vendor specific. However, reconstruction development can be done on virtually any platform, provided the raw k-space data can be transferred from the scanner, and properly interpreted.

Purpose

This session will highlight some of the open source software resources available to the MR community. There will also be some tips on what steps an MR developer can take to keep their code open and dogma free.

The following websites provide evaluations and some detailed descriptions of software projects designed for MR development:

http://www.ismrm.org/MR-Hub/
http://www.opensourceimaging.org/projects/
http://www.ismrm.org/mri_unbound/
http://www.ismrm.org/workshops/Data16/program.htm Session #8
http://www.ismrm.org/workshops/Data13/program.htm Session #8

Some of the software that will be introduced can be found at these links:

Gadgetron (Full Reconstruction Pipeline)
http://gadgetron.github.io/
Codeare (Full Reconstruction Pipeline)
http://codeare.org/
Yarra (Offline-Processing Framework)
http://yarra.rocks
CS_MoCo_LAB (Compressed Sensing & Motion Correction Lab)
https://github.com/thomaskuestner/CS_Moco_LAB
MIchigan Reconstruction Toolbox: MRI software
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/code/mri.htm
Unwrap, JSENSE, NLGRAPPA (Reconstruction Modules)
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jlv27/index_files/software.htm
NYU_MRF_Recon (MR Fingerprinting Reconstruction)
https://bitbucket.org/asslaender/nyu_mrf_recon
BART (Berkley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox)
https://mrirecon.github.io/bart/
gpuNUFFT (GPU Regridding)
https://github.com/andyschwarzl/gpuNUFFT
NaCl (Google Chrome Native Client)
http://cds.ismrm.org/protected/DataSampling13/Program/talks/32000/
GPI (Reconstruction Prototyping)
http://gpilab.com
ISMRMRD (Raw Data Format)
https://ismrmrd.github.io
.ra (Raw Array Data Format)
https://github.com/davidssmith/ra

Acknowledgements

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