SeeMRI - a Simulation environment for education in MRI
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SeeMRI is a lightweight magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) visual
simulator, written in Matlab, for the purpose of teaching students the
fundamental principles of MRI.

It is based on the Bloch equations and can demonstrate many phenomena
associated with MRI, such as on- and off-resonance excitation, slice
selection, phase and frequency encoding, spin echo, chemical shift and
contrast mechanisms. Susceptibility is not simulated, although a
demagnetization field can be manually supplied.


System Requirements
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SeeMRI uses latest Matlab's object-orientation support with the
keyword classdef. It has been to tested to run on version R2009b, but
may work on earlier versions, not earlier than 2008a though.


Installation
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To install SeeMRI unzip the archive and add the the SeeMRI folder to
the Matlab path.

For faster simulation you may compile the function 'rotvec' by typing,
in Matlab: 
   mex -O rotvec.c


Getting started
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Run demo_seemri for a set of examples.

Also the help page for the command 'seemri' is a good starting point.


Author
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Peter Nillius 
Medical Imaging, Department of Physics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Email: nillius@mi.physics.kth.se.
