Siemens IDEA · XA60 · scanner workarounds
IDEA Notebook: fixes for when you're stuck.
Short notes on Siemens IDEA and the scanner software around it. Each one is a problem I got stuck on and the steps that got me unstuck, written down so you don't have to work them out again.
pTx, scanner hacks
How to recover a static B1 shim solution from a DICOM file
Every DICOM stores the pTx shim weights the scan was run with. One command reads them out and turns them into an AdjValidate command you can run on the scanner.
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XA60, POET
How to open protocols in POET XA60 that fail the consistency check
POET on XA60 sometimes refuses to open a stored .pro file, even though the sequence still simulates. Rebuilding the protocol with mephisto fixed it for me.
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Who writes this
I'm Nils Nothnagel. I develop MRI pulse sequences at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), University of Minnesota. More about my work at nilsnothnagel.com.