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Abstract #0218

TOPPE: A framework for rapid prototyping of MR pulse sequences

Jon-Fredrik Nielsen1 and Douglas C Noll1

1Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

We present a simple MR pulse programming framework for rapid prototyping of complex, custom MR pulse sequences. We define a file format that contains all low-level details of an MR imaging experiment, along with a driver (or interpreter) that loads the file(s) and executes the experiment on a General Electric scanner. We demonstrate that a wide range of sequences can be implemented with this setup, subject to limitations such as non-overlapping waveforms. Our framework is conceptually similar to Pulseq, a recently-introduced file format specification for which drivers for other vendor platforms exist (at present, Siemens and Bruker).

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