Abstract #1449

Bringing Quantitative Clinical Routine MR-Spectroscopy & Clinical MR-Image Viewing Together: Novel JMRUI Plug-Ins for DICOM-Network File Transfer DICOM Image Stack Analysis

Johannes Slotboom¹, Dirk van Ormondt², Danielle Graveron-Demilly³, Dan Stefan⁴, Caspar Brekenfeld¹, Roland Wiest¹, Gerhard Schroth¹, Olivier Scheidegger¹

¹DRNN-DIN/SCAN, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland; ²Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; ³Laboratoire Creatis-LRMN, Universit Claude Bernard LYON 1, Lyon, France; ⁴Alter Systems

Most advanced applications for quantitative MRS can poorly be integrated in clinical routine workflow. The reasons are: (1.) they have very rudimentary image display/analysis possibilities; (2.) they have no DICOM-network capabilities for receiving/sending spectroscopy/image report files using the DICOM network protocol (data must manually be exported to off-line files (time consuming)), and (3.) they are file oriented, i.e. the user has to open files. Clinical users however do not work file-oriented, but patient/study/series-oriented. This paper reports on developed plug-ins for jMRUI to make quantitative MRS attractive for clinical routine-use.