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Java-based graphical user interface for the MRUI quantitation package

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This article describes the Java-based version of the magnetic resonance user interface (MRUI) quantitation package. This package allows MR spectroscopists to easily perform time-domain analysis of in vivo MR spectroscopy data. We show that the Java programming language is very well suited for developing highly interactive graphical software applications such as the MRUI software. We have also established that MR quantitation algorithms, programmed in other languages, can easily be embedded into the Java-based MRUI by using the Java native interface (JNI). This new graphical user interface (GUI) has been conceived for the processing of large data sets and uses prior knowledge data-bases to make interactive quantitation algorithms more userfriendly.

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  1. Facilität für Physik und Geowissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstrasse 5, Leipzig, Germany

    A. Naressi & C. Mangeat

  2. Department of Applied Physics, University of Technology Delft, PO Box 5046, 2600, G A Delft, The Netherlands

    C. Couturier & R. de Beer

  3. Signal Processing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    J. M. Devos

  4. Laboratoire de RUN, CNRS UMR Q5012, Université Claude Bernard LyonI-CPE, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 191 S, 69622, Villeurbanne Cédex, France

    M. Janssen & D. Graveron-Demilly

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Naressi, A., Couturier, C., Devos, J.M. et al. Java-based graphical user interface for the MRUI quantitation package. MAGMA 12, 141–152 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02668096

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