What is V?

Despite the recent surge of ideas for processing magnetic resonance data, very little effort has been made to make them accessible to the general MR community. Very often, using an algorithm to process data requires developing programs from scratch based on the literature or, at best, tailoring programs in their original form obtained from the author to apply them to specific problems. This process is made especially difficult by the multitude of operating systems and hardware used by researchers and the relative complexity of the newer reconstruction techniques. All too frequently, it seems, good ideas are lost in the literature because they are not readily applied.

V is our attempt to provide a general-purpose software system for magnetic resonance imaging and spectral reconstruction, processing, and analysis. It is intended not to be a comprehensive package including every known algorithm, but rather as a basic package including some of the popular reconstruction tools. Moreover, it is largely aimed at providing a means for distribution of functions among researchers in the MR community. V has been designed so that software development does not require an immense knowledge of the internal operation of the program. Rather, the programmer can develop individual functions indepently of V. After validation and testing, these functions can be incorporated into the V program with minimum modification.

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