High-performance computing MRI simulations

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 186-193

  Stöcker, Tony ^a,b,c   Vahedipour, Kaveh ^a   Pflugfelder, Daniel ^a   Shah, N Jon ^a,b,c,d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^c JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bloch equations; High performance computing; MRI simulation; Object oriented design patterns; Sequence development

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

BLOCH EQUATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MRI SIMULATION; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; SEQUENCE DEVELOPMENT;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WAVEFORM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77953926283     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22406     Document Type: Article

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