MRI Acronyms

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) pulse-sequence/parameter vendor acronyms

Note: no uniform system of nomenclature for MRI sequences has been adopted by manufacturers.

Numerous vendor-specific names are patented and therefore cannot be used by other vendors.

Python for MRI acronyms:

• build_lookup_table.py dynamically generates LUT
• create_report.py generates '.csv' table of vendor acronyms
• search_lut_by_keyword.py discover relevant pulse-sequence/parameter by keyword (case-insensitive search)

Setup Virtual Environment

setup_project.sh

Update Virtual Environment

update_project.sh

Poetry Run Commands

# dynamically create category-to-acronym LUT
poetry run python ./src/mri_acronyms/build_lookup_table.py

# generate CSV report
poetry run python ./src/mri_acronyms/create_report.py

# search lookup table by keyword
poetry run python ./src/mri_acronyms/search_by_keyword.py

Resources:

MRI

• Forums and Blogs
• MRI for RADs
• Radiopaedia
• MRIquestions.com - sequences

Acronyms across vendors

• IMAIOS
• BIB
• MRIquestions.com
• Canon acquires Toshiba

DICOM data

• public datasets

Credits

• Dr. Allen Elster
• Drs. Hoa & Micheau