[MINC-users] mrisim for cardiac MRI simulation

[Andrew Janke]

> In our lab we are interested in simulating cardiac cine-MRI from
> artificial phantoms. We have downloaded and installed MRISim and played
> a little bit with it but we were wondering if there exist configuration
> files for the coil, sequence and tissue parameters already tuned for
> such an application.

Not that I know of.  Your best contact within the BIC for this would
be Bruce Pike.

> Does anyone know if it is possible to use MRISim to perform these kind
> of simulations? Preliminary results were promising but we are missing
> some parameters.

I don't see why it would not be possible but I suspect you will have
to write a bit more code for the physics (and distortions) of surface
coils, I don't remember such things being in mrisim.

I hate to do it, but there is also the competition in terms of
simulation, (POSSUM -
http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/analysis/research/possum). It at least is
under active development as I understand. POSSUM has a lot more
functionality in terms of distortion simulation which will be needed
to model surface coil artifacts and signal drop-off.

Last I heard Ivana Drobnjak was looking after POSSUM.

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