Report No 1951/AP - Instytut Fizyki JÄ drowej PAN
Report No 1951/AP - Instytut Fizyki JÄ drowej PAN
Report No 1951/AP - Instytut Fizyki JÄ drowej PAN
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DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF THE GR<strong>AP</strong>HICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MRI<br />
SYSTEM BASED ON THE MARAN DRX CONSOLE<br />
J.M. Haduch 1,2 , T. Banasik 2 , A. Jasiński 2 , and T. Skórka 2<br />
1 AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer<br />
SciencE, Kraków, Poland<br />
2 The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS Cracow, Department of<br />
Magnetic Resonance, Krakó, Poland<br />
Graphical User Interface design is dedicated to Magnetic Resonance Imaging system<br />
based on Maran DRX Console operating 4.7 tesla MR system.<br />
GUI has to provide user friendly environment to use imaging sequences already installed<br />
and testing the new ones. It should provide easy data processing from phantoms, plants, small<br />
animals (in vivo) and human limbs. The new interface has to be able to use already existing<br />
libraries or object files brought by Maran DRX Console and to overtake almost all<br />
functionality offered by the current system [1]. It is designed to operate in MS Windows TM<br />
2000 and XP family operating systems. GUI is being written using Borland Delphi 5.0<br />
Professional environment, object oriented, with VCL and COM technologies and open source<br />
libraries, covering multidimensional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Inverted Fast Fourier<br />
Transform (IFFT) algorithms, obtained form the FFTW project website and adapted to<br />
magnetic resonance imaging purposes. [2][3][4]<br />
The basic aim of designing GUI is to make a very useful and intuitive software allowing<br />
user to perform whole experiment without a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of<br />
particular procedures and commands already used. It allows to focus on the results and<br />
hopefully to save time spared on preparation and setting all the examination parameters<br />
including proper slice positioning and selecting field of view.<br />
This software is developed as a MSc. project at AGH University 1 .<br />
Literature:<br />
[1] Guihéneuf T.: RINMR User Manual, Resonance Instruments Ltd 2002<br />
[2] Pasławski A.: Programowanie w Delphi 5.0, Wydawnictwo „Edition 2000”, Kraków 2000<br />
[3] http://www.fftw.org<br />
[4] Borland Delphi 5 for Windows 98, Windows 95, & Windows NT, Object Pascal Language<br />
Guide, Inprise Corporation 1999<br />
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