A labVIEW based magnetic resonance imaging console

Author

Porter, J.R. ; Zha, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Technol., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

In in effort to create an affordable magnetic resonance imaging system suitable for research use, a personal computer (PC) based MRI console is currently being designed and studied. National Instrument´s LabVIEW, a virtual instrumentation development system, is being used to create the necessary system control and data processing software. The interface to the external hardware is done through the use of generic PC data acquisition cards. It is only recently that personal computers and PC based data acquisition cards have become fast enough to meet the stringent requirements of this application. This paper presents the console design and results from laboratory testing

Keywords

biomedical MRI; biomedical equipment; data acquisition; microcomputer applications; virtual instrumentation; affordable magnetic resonance imaging system; data processing software; generic PC data acquisition cards; labVIEW based magnetic resonance imaging console; laboratory testing; magnetic resonance imaging; medical diagnostic imaging; personal computer based MRI console; virtual instrumentation development system; Application software; Control systems; Data acquisition; Data processing; Hardware; Instruments; Laboratories; Magnetic resonance imaging; Microcomputers; Process control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804235

Filename

804235