Graphical User Interface for Reconstruction and Visualization of High-Resolution Susceptibility-Weighted MR Data

Purpose: In recent years, BOLD-MR venography [1] (also named susceptibility-weighted imaging, SWI) has been established for the examination of tumors [2, 3] and for studying physiological processes [4]. The creation of BOLD venograms starting from k-space data requires a combination of magnitude and phase information in a rather sophisticated manner. This has not been implemented in MRI scanners yet. Therefore, a platform-independent graphical user interface (GUI) has been developed for the generation and extensive analysis of SWI data. Materials and Methods: High-resolution 3D scans of the human brain of volunt…