Siemens IDEA · XA60 · scanner workarounds
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Each note is one problem I got stuck on while programming MRI sequences with Siemens IDEA or working on the scanner, and the steps that got me unstuck. Short and practical, newest first.
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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