ParaVision

MR-Acquisition and Processing in Preclinical Research and Material Science

Intuitive routine software package and latest cutting-edge techniques
for pre-clinical MR imaging and spectroscopy.

Main Features

Intuitive routine workflow
Application-oriented, ready-to-use protocols
Self-acting, method-specific scanner adjustments
Automatic instrumentation recognition
Parallel acquisition option for all suitable acquisition techniques with automatic generation of composed images/spectra
Half-Fourier (Partial-Fourier) encoding
Self-gated cardiac MRI using IntraGate™ enables continous scanning under steadystate conditions
Real-time display of acquired and reconstructed data
Sophisticated data archiving including DICOM export
Development environment with powerful tools for rapid prototyping of user-defined experiments and professional method implementation

Reconstruction Features

Push-button GRAPPA reconstruction for all parallel imaging methods
Sum of squares and phase-sensitive, phased-array reconstruction strategies
Phased-array spectroscopy reconstruction
Partial FOURIER reconstruction
EPI reconstruction with efficient ghost suppression
Navigator techniques to reduce motion artifacts in EPI and SPIRAL
DTI evaluation

Processing Features

A rich palette of image analysis and visualization tools allow the user to
extract more complex information from 2D or 3D images. Besides basic
functionality like magnification, ROI analysis and geometrical measurements,
the following features have proven highly invaluable:

2D and 3D region growing, e.g. for image segmentation
Export of histogram values
Display and analysis of time-course´data with the fitting tool “ISA”
Frame-selective loading of image sequences for display, e.g. either timecourse frames or slices for a multi-slice movie dataset
3D visualization with surface rendering Image mask inversion