Bahman Kasmai1, Paul Napier Malcolm1,
Andoni Paul Toms1, Andrew Brian Gill2
1Radiology, Norfolk & Norwich
University Hospitals NHS Trust, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; 2Radiology,
Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The
aim of this work was to develop a software
tool for validation, evaluation and integrity checks of in-house and
commercial MRI iron overload systems. A windows-based software application,
called SOFGEN, written in C# and based
on Microsoft .NET framework generates
a sets of fully Dicom compliant images from a set of user supplied
parameters and decay model, for
testing of Dicom compliant MRI T2(*) assessment software. The SOFGEN generated phantoms were successfully
used to evaluate a number of in-house
developed T2(*) assessment software and is available free via email request
to authors.
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