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Abstract #2373

MRiLab: Performing Fast 3D Parallel MRI Numerical Simulation on a Simple PC

Fang Liu1, Richard Kijowski2, Walter F. Block1, 3

1Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 2Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

A simulation package named MRiLab is introduced here for performing efficient and flexible 3D numerical MRI simulation on simple PC. MRiLab features user-friendly interface and optimized programming-free modules that well suits for MR pulse sequence design and image reconstruction technique development. Associated tools are also provided for analyzing multiple spin evolution, MR signal and k-space formation, local SAR distribution, etc. With the simulation acceleration accompanied by GPU and multi-threaded CPU, MRiLab has proven to be a fast and effective parallel simulation framework with minimum computation hardware requirements.

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