Eros Montin1,2, Giuseppe Carluccio1,2, and Riccardo Lattanzi1,2,3
1Department of Radiology, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 2Department of Radiology, Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 3Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
1Department of Radiology, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 2Department of Radiology, Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 3Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
DGF is a web-based application to simulate MR coils in the case of simple geometries that mimic actual anatomy. Ultimate intrinsic performance limits can be calculated within the same framework to assess coil designs. Computational tasks can be executed in the cloud using Docker containers.
The three types of users supported by DGF. User A requests simulations from the web GUI and runs them on a dedicated Cloud MR AWS account. User B runs the simulations from the web GUI using her/his own cloud computing account. User C runs the simulations on a local computer. Users B and C can synchronize the results on Cloud MR using restful API’s. All types of users can display results on the web GUI or download them in standard formats (e.g., mat or json).
The Set Up tab of DGF’s web GUI. The web GUI is implemented in html and uses several javascripts libraries (angularjs, jquery, bootstrap, plotly.js, math.js and Three.js). The Set Up tab is divided into panels that enable customizing different aspects of the simulations. This figure shows the Object panel, from which users can define the properties of the various object layers (three in this example) and specify the size and position of loop coils.
