The first truly realistic and interactive MRI simulator for a smartphone! Try it out!
MRIcontrast Pro™ is a truly interactive simulator for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The app is aimed at healthcare professionals working with MRI, who want to learn how scan parameters affect the MR image.
MRIcontrast Pro™ visualizes realistic MRI images from various body parts and allows the user to change scan parameters (repetition time, echo time, flip angle, and many others). Even the magnetic field strength can be altered (1.5T or 3T). Any parameter change results in an immediate, real-time update of the MR image.
To facilitate for MRI-beginners, a built-in tutorial explains the meaning of each parameter and how it will affect the MR image. All imaging protocols are explained in detail, and guides are provided of how to learn and explore the various phenomena that can be studied.
MRIcontrast Pro™ is delivered with a gallery of common sequence types (T1-, T2- and PD-weighted spin echo, T2*-weighted gradient echo with and without RF-spoiling, steady-state free precession (SSFP), balanced SSFP, inversion recovery, turbo spin echo, echo planar imaging (both spin echo and gradient echo), diffusion weighted imaging etc), from which the user can explore the effects of changing the preset parameters.
In addition to viewing the images, the sound of the scanner can be played, and it also changes depending on the scan parameter settings.
Image features and MRI phenomena that currently are visualized in MRIcontrast Pro™:
- Contrast as function of TR, TE and flip angle
- Signal-to-noise ratio
- Fat/water in-phase and opposed-phase
- Chemical shift artefact
- Different image contrast and SNR at 3T vs. 1.5T
- T2*-relaxation
- Echo-planar (EPI) geometrical distortions
- Diffusion attenuation as function of b-value
- True FISP banding artifacts
Once you download the app you have to pay additional for different part anatomy which I don't is right to purchase something and the to keep purchasing for the same app you though you got. You can just have the whole price of the app displayed and let customers decide if it worth to purchase it instead of fraud tactics.
Developer Response
Dear RuthMaya,We are sorry that you perceive the app as “fraud tactics”. The model of in-app purchases is very common on AppleStore, with the idea of letting users try the app for free with limited functionality, and then to decide whether it is worthwhile to pay for the remaining functionalities.You can purchase the version “MRIcontrast” at a fixed price in AppleStore. Then you get all anatomies and all functions at once in a single purchase. By having the free version, you can decide if this is worthwhile before paying anything at all.
- The gradient echo protocol now has RF-spoiling which can be turned on and off.
- A new steady-state free precession (SSFP-Echo) protocol has been added.
- All major types of gradient echo sequences can now be simulated.
- All protocols (sequences) now obey timing limitations set by the MRI scanner hardware (finite RF-pulse durations, gradient switching times, etc).
- Minor user interface enhancements.
- Bug fixes.
Version 2.1
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