ODIN is a free and open source C++ software framework that will help you develop, simulate and run magnetic resonance sequences on different platforms.

ODIN is:
State-of-the-Art: Contemporary magnetic resonance imaging techniques are available, for example sequence modules for echo-planar imaging and spiral-imaging, parallel imaging with GRAPPA reconstruction, two-dimensional pulses and field-map-based distortion corrections.

Easy-to-Use: All common steps, from compiling your sequence to plotting or simulating it, can be performed within a graphical user interface.

Hardware Independent: ODIN runs on a variety of operating systems and scanners. Once you develop a sequence, it can be executed/simulated on very different hardware, ranging from a real-time sequence controller to your personal workstation.

Truly Object-Oriented: Written in C++ with an object-oriented design, ODIN is very modular, flexible and requires very little code to write: The sequences that come with ODIN are easy to understand and modify.

Supported Image/Data Formats:
· ASCII
· Ansoft HFSS ASCII
· DICOM
· GNU-Zip container for other formats
· Iris3D binary data
· JCAMP-DX data sets
· JCAMP-DX image format
· Matlab ascii 2D data matrix
· MetaImage
· NIFTI/ANALYZE, dialects: fsl
· PNG image writer
· Vista, dialects: common odin lipsia xlipsia
· Visualization Toolkit
· double raw data
· float raw data
· signed 16 bit raw data
· signed 32 bit raw data
· signed 8 bit raw data
· unsigned 16 bit raw data
· unsigned 32 bit raw data
· unsigned 8 bit raw data
· x-y positions of non-zeroes in ASCII

NOTE: Installation instructions for Mac OS X can be found in the INSTALL.TXT file inside the archive.

Publisher: Thies H. Jochimsen

Tags: develop MRI, magnetic resonance sequence,