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Pulseq – Open-source pulse sequences

Application

Open Source framework for the development and hardware-independent execution of MR pulse sequences for imaging and spectroscopy. MRI sequences can be programmed in MATLAB and executed on real hardware.

Contributors

Kelvin Layton1, Stefan Kroboth1, Jochen Leupold1, Huijun Yu1, Feng Jia1, Jon-Fredrik Nielsen2, Sebastian Littin1, Tony Stöcker3, Maxim Zaitsev1

Contact

pulseq.mr@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Estimated cost

Free

Progress

Stable release, MIT License

Resources

http://pulseq.github.io/

Pulseq is an open source framework for the development, representation and execution of magnetic resonance (MR) sequences. A central contribution of this project is an open file format to compactly describe MR sequences suitable for execution on an MRI scanner or NMR spectrometer. MATLAB and C++ source code is provided for reading and writing sequence files.

Currently, Pulseq sequences can be executed on the following platforms. Please contact us if you would like to run open and flexible sequences at your institution.

  • Siemens
  • GE
  • Bruker

Publications

Layton K, Kroboth S, Leupold J, Huijun Yu, Jia F, Littin S, Stöcker T, Zaitsev M, “A hardware-independent environment for MR acquisition and simulation”, Proc Intl Soc Magn Reson Med, p2484, 2015

Layton K, Kroboth S, Jia F, Littin S, Yu H, Leupold J, Nielsen JF, Stöcker T, and Zaitsev M, “Pulseq: A rapid and hardware-independent pulse sequence prototyping framework,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, [Epub ahead of print], 2016.

Affiliations

1Medical Physics, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany

2Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

3German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany

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