SIMRI swMATH ID: 14068 Software Authors: Cattin HB, Collewet G, Belaroussi B, Jalmes HS, Odet C Description: The SIMRI project: a versatile and interactive MRI simulator. This paper gives an overview of SIMRI, a new 3D MRI simulator based on the Bloch equation. This simulator proposes an efficient management of the View the MathML sourceT2∗ effect, and in a unique simulator integrates most of the simulation features that are offered in different simulators. It takes into account the main static field value and enables realistic simulations of the chemical shift artifact, including off-resonance phenomena. It also simulates the artifacts linked to the static field inhomogeneity like those induced by susceptibility variation within an object. It is implemented in the C language and the MRI sequence programming is done using high level C functions with a simple programming interface. To manage large simulations, the magnetization kernel is implemented in a parallelized way that enables simulation on PC grid architecture. Furthermore, this simulator includes a 1D interactive interface for pedagogic purpose illustrating the magnetization vector motion as well as the MRI contrasts. Homepage: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090780704003908 Related Software: COMSOL; Matlab Cited in: 4 Publications all top 5 Cited by 10 Authors 1 Balac, Stéphane 1 Chupin, Laurent 1 Gouri Raveendran, Subha 1 Hazra, Arijit 1 Lube, Gert 1 Paul, Joseph Suresh 1 Raumer, Hans-Georg 1 Sha, N. Jon 1 Stöcker, Tony 1 Vahedipour, Kaveh Cited in 3 Serials 1 Applied Numerical Mathematics 1 Mathematical and Computer Modelling 1 SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering Cited in 5 Fields 3 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 2 Optics, electromagnetic theory (78-XX) 2 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) 1 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) Citations by Year