ParaVision 360

Highlights from the newest features of the 3.6 release:

AI Denoising

• Non-generative denoising approach of complex data
• Increased image quality
• Higher throughput enabled via reduced scan times
• Improved quantitative results and more precise fits
• Full freedom to choose denoising level while maintaining original data

Increased Scan Protocols and Methods Portfolio

• Fast cardiac T1 mapping with segmentation of the image acquisition and independent triggering of the inversion pulse and the data acquisition
• Fast, T2-weighted 3D, isotropic in vivo RAREvfl protocols for an expanded range of instruments

Efficiently Designed Workflows

• Improved workflow for PET/CT with revised logic for protocols and scan programs
• Start scan time as default image decay correction in PET scans for higher accuracy
  
  

Highlights from the newest features of the 3.5 release:

Out of the Box Protocols for Morphological, Metabolic, and Molecular Studies

• Fast, T2-weighted 3D, isotropic in vivo imaging with RAREvfl
• Standardized rat T2* EPI protocol for fMRI meeting guidelines of the MultiRat¹ collaboration
  ¹https://github.com/grandjeanlab/StandardRat
• Fully automated PET/CT stitched protocol including attenuation correction (AC) map for rats up to 250 mm in length

Extended Spectroscopy Capabilites

• Spectral editing of J-coupled resonances such as lactate, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), glutamate, and glx (glutamate/glutamine) with MEGA-PRESS
• Efficient visualization and processing of single voxel spectroscopy and chemical shift imaging spectroscopic data (e.g. CSI) with Spectroscopy Card
• Metabolic map creation and anatomical reference image overlaying
• AI based baseline and phase correction

Efficient PET Scanning

• Real-time 3D display of tracer biodistribution during scanning
• Data display on touchscreen as well as in pre-defined single slices for fastest planning of further scans based on tracer biodistribution

• Common terminology between instruments, common integrated multimodal workflows, and common image processing, viewing, and analysis tools and functionalities for optimal clarity
• Animal Transport System control via touchscreen¹
• Multi-station image acquisition and imaging stitching¹
• Simple selection of prone or supine viewing
• Automatic 3D image fusion
• MR Method development framework
• Drag and drop image processing
• Advanced intensity based image registration
• ROIs with thresholding, seeded region growing, and freehand definition
• On-the-fly quantitative image mapping
• Data browser with simple search functions for accessing stored protocols and recorded data
• Database and archiving and report creation
• An Acceleration Suite including Compressed Sensing, Simultaneous Multislice Imaging, Partial Fourier with homodyne reconstruction, and 3D GRAPPA with CAIPIRINHA
• Wobble control on magnet front touchscreen display^²
• SLASER single voxel spectroscopy that is robust against B1 inhomogeneities and provides less chemical shift displacement
• Magnet status display in ParaVision and remote instrument monitoring option

¹Available for BioSpec 3T, Inline PET/MR, and PET/CT Si78
²For instruments with Animal Transport System

• Over 100 validated and ready-to-use in vivo protocols and scan programs for mice and rats with integrated examination guide for optimal scanning navigation and reproducibility
• MRI CASL workflow package for optimal scanning and consistency
• IntraGateUTE for virtually flow-artifact free cardiac scanning
• Dynamic shimming capability¹
• B1 optimization and mapping
• Fat-water separation imaging
• Fat chemical shift corrected images
• 3D GRAPPA and Compressed Sensing²
• Fast online decisions and real-time calculations on all channels
• MRI pulse program display

¹ Work in progress research feature. Outcomes depend on the available shim hardware

² Compressed Sensing is work in progress

• Multimodal Scan Programs include complete instructions for interdependent PET/CT reconstruction steps
• Extensive reconstruction algorithms (e.g. MLEM, OSEM, MAP, FBP)
• MRI or CT based attenuation corrections with automatic loading of animal cradle and MRI coil and individual calculation of subject
• Static, multi-stage, dynamic imaging
• Wireless cardiac PET/MR imaging
• Kinetic time course image reconstruction and segmentation
• TAC display with Patlak fit for kinetic modeling
• Advanced DOI
• Scatter, randoms, isotope decay, and dead-time corrections
• Custom isotope profiles

• Protocol library for mice and rats for anatomical reference
• Static, multi-stage, dynamic imaging
• 3D/2D
• Step & shoot or continuous
• Ultrafast low dose protocols
• Cardiac & respiratory gating
• Real-time adjustments preview
• Smoothing, beam hardening & ring corrections
• Hounsfield scaling

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