Visit the CHOP-fMRU Assistant Wiki for complete instructions!
CHOP-fMRU is a piece of medical software created at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to perform functional MR urography and is based on the IDL framework. While implementing CHOP-fMRU at OHSU, I encountered several barriers that were best addressed with additional software. This adjunct program is designed to:
- Download studies from a PACS to the local hard drive for analysis
- Organize DICOM files from multiple studies
- Adjust DICOM header values to reflect assumptions made by CHOP-fMRU software and allow them to be imported into the program for analysis
- Selectively exclude certain time points or slice positions from the study
- Create new DICOM files from the images that are exported from CHOP-fMRU so they can be uploaded back to PACS as an additional series within the study.
- Upload fMRU results DICOM files to PACS, which will be added to their source MRU
This open source project is available under the simplified BSD license. It relies on the Grassroots DICOM library, which is available under the same license.
- .NET Framework 4.5 (minimum)
- 64-bit Windows
To quickly get started with the application, simply download this zip file, which contains the current stable release version. Extract the folder to your file system and run the CHOP-fMRU_Assistant application.
Visit the wiki for instructions on how to use the program to make functional urography with CHOP-fMRU a little easier!
This software is developed in C# using Visual Studio 2015. It's based on the 64-bit, C# wrapped version of the Grassroots DICOM library. Please feel free to submit issues through git or to contribute to the project yourself. Learning to collaborate using Git is the primary reason I decided to share this project.