Abstract
The method of magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is substantially limited by a rather small field of view (FOV ) evenin preclinical imaging. To cover a bigger FOV, a multi-patch approach - i.e., scanning of a series of small FOVs(patches) shifted in space - is necessary. Here, we present a simple software tool VOMMPI (Volume Merger for MPI)for merging of patches into a final 3D volume data of the scanned object.
The software reads reconstructed dataproduced by a field-free point scanner (MPI 25/20FF, Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Germany), merges them, averagesdata overlapping in space, and exports them in DICOM format. The software is free for non-commercial use.