MR and PET raw data support for XNAT

[Christoph Kolbitsch]

Together with a team from the Advanced Research Computing (ARC) centre at UCL we have implemented MR and PET raw data plugins for XNAT. The plugin for MR (https://github.com/SyneRBI/xnat-mrd) is based on (ISMR)MRD and for PET (https://github.com/SyneRBI/xnat-interfile) on STIR, supporting any data format that can be read by STIR, including its Interfile support. This means that raw data is not just a data blob on the system but header information is accessible, searchable and findable. Containerized SIRF reconstructions can be run directly in XNAT and access the raw MR and PET data. Reconstructed Dicom data is then saved again in XNAT. This is an important step to evaluate advanced image reconstruction methods in a standardized and easy-to-use way. We will provide an example for this soon! 

[Daniel Marcus]

Chris,

This is a great contribution. This is functionality that has been frequently requested  XNAT users.  

-Dan