TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION BY MAGNETIC-RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY AND IMAGING - RESULTS OF A CONCERTED RESEARCH-PROJECT OF THE EUROPEAN-ECONOMIC-COMMUNITY .6. A SOFTWARE PROGRAM FOR EXCHANGING MR DATA

In an MR multicenter project, data exchange is a problem because most MR scanners do not use the same data format or have data export facilities. In the COMAC-BME Concerted Action on Tissue Characterization by MRS and MRI, a subgroup of seven MR centers had a need for data exchange in the form of digital MR images of the human brain. Because there was no common data format, a software package was developed for data exchange. This article describes the basic features of the developed software. The software package was written in the language of C and was successfully tested on an IBM-6150 UNIX workstation. The software is currently being tested on the following series of UNIX workstations: SUN SPARC, IBM RS6000, and HP 9000/700.