Remote quality assessment and research support system for advanced MRI studies

Abstract

User interventions and quality assessments are usually necessary for diagnostic and experimental MRI studies. The main motivation of this study is to develop a software package which enables users to remotely control distant console, communicate with physician and/or technician via on-line messaging system/ le transfer system and control MRI scanner software when necessary. This platform consists of main console and sub-modules. Main console and sub-modules were programmed with Borland Delphi 7 which is object oriented programming language based on object Pascal. While current sub-modules were programmed with Delphi, it's possible to include future applications which are developed with di erent languages/compilers. Application is based on client-server architecture and connection protocol is TCP/IP. Remote control system and its sub-modules let users/researchers connect to distant computer systems (e.g. one at laboratory, one at hospital etc) and allow them to operate remotely which could improve productivity and optimize time and error management. The main idea is development of a remote control system for quality assessment and remote support system for MRI scanners.|Keywords: Quality assessment, Remote support, MRI, Remote control, Delphi.