A PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS SOFTWARE FOR PERFUSION AND DIFFUSION MR IMAGING IN CANCER RESEARCH

A software package has been developed to process perfusion, relaxation times and diffusion MRI data acquired in cancer research. This software package was written on MATLAB platform (Version 6.0). Parameter maps, such as permeability, apparent diffusion coefficient and \$T\-1\$ were generated from original MRI data. The features of parametric analysis include ROI analysis, contrast adjust, statistical information generation, false color image and zoom in display. Since it was written in Matlab functions, this package can be used on almost all operation systems (Microsoft windows, Unix, Mac OS Linux) and it is easy to expand the features.