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The purpose of our work is to develop tools for simulation of angiographic MRI images of cerebral vasculature. We present here our extension of the open-source software Jemris dedicated to this goal. Jemris is an advanced simulation software including most of MRI physical phenomena (concomitant gradient fields, molecular diffusion, patient move, etc). Our work now provides the additional ability to simulate fluids in motion, in addition to static tissues. These changes allow us to obtain velocimetric phase contrast images for simple Poiseuille flow, with multi-directional speed encoding. Comparison between our simulations and real MRI data gives promising first results.
This research was funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Grant Agreement ANR-12-MONU-0010).
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Fortin, A., Durand, E., Salmon, S. (2014). Extension of an MRI Simulator Software for Phase Contrast Angiography Experiments. In: Bello, F., Cotin, S. (eds) Biomedical Simulation. ISBMS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12057-7_17
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