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21-11-11 - TARQUIN version 4.2.4 has been released for Windows and Linux with the following new features and fixes:
- Added tabs to the advanced fit dialogue so we can add more options in future versions.
- Line broadening can now be applied to the fit results in the GUI.
- Support for Ralph's GE MEGA-PRESS sequence (thanks to Ruth O'Gorman for providing example data).
- Various bug fixes, including IMA fix for Siemens Skyra platform (thanks to Risto for providing example data).
Please report bugs and suggest new features via the users' group.
About TARQUIN
TARQUIN is an analysis tool for automatically determining the quantities of molecules present in NMR spectroscopic data. The intended purpose of TARQUIN is to aid the characterisation of pathologies, in particular brain tumours, both non-invasively with in-vivo 1H MRS and ex-vivo with 1H HR-MAS. TARQUIN has the following features:
- Free to use and modify under the GPL licence.
- Based on a flexible time-domain fitting routine designed to give accurate rapid and automated quantitation for routine analysis.
- Cross platform, works on Windows, Linux and OSX.
- Comes packaged with a quantum mechanically based metabolite simulator to allow basis set construction optimised for the investigation of particular pathologies sequence parameters.
- Includes both GUI (see below for screenshot) and command line interface for one-off and batch analyses.
Supported data formats
We recommend that all MRS data is exported from the scanner in the standard DICOM MRS format to ensure compatibility with TARQUIN. Whist other formats may work today, they may not tomorrow, since they are not standardised. Therefore scanner software updates may break compatibility.
A summary of the data formats that should work with TARQUIN are detailed below.
| Format | Single voxel | 2D CSI | 3D CSI |
|---|---|---|---|
| DICOM MRS | Yes | * | No |
| Siemens IMA | Yes | * | No |
| Siemens RDA | Yes | * | No |
| Philips SDAT/SPAR | Yes | * | No |
| GE P files | Yes | * | No |
| Varian | Yes | No | No |
| Bruker | Yes | No | No |
| ASCII format | Yes | No | No |
* under development.
Old news
22-06-11 - TARQUIN version 4.2.1 has been released for Windows and Linux with the following new features and fixes:
- Basic functionality for 2D CSI data fitting. Should work for Siemens IMA+RDA, Philips SPAR/SDAT, GE P-files and DICOM MRS.
- The main scanner manufactures data formats should be automatically detected.
- Updated documentation.
- Various bug fixes.
