Category: NIMS

Flywheel: Part Four

Flywheel We are on track to switch over to Flywheel on Saturday, September 1.  As of that day, new data collected at CNI will not be placed in NIMS.  New data will be sent  to Flywheel directly (https://cni.flywheel.io).  NIMS will be kept online as legacy only. Logins for the Flywheel site is managed by Stanford authentication, via Google. So to login… Read more Flywheel: Part Four

Flywheel: Part Three

Thanks to all of you who have started to take a look at the Flywheel data management system. A few notes and reminders. 1.  We are still on track for a September 1 change over.  Having said this, Michael is considering transitioning a little bit sooner.  The reason is that the very heavy use of… Read more Flywheel: Part Three

NIMS transition to Flywheel: Part Two

Main point The Flywheel data management system has been running smoothly for several months at the CNI.  The main purpose of this message is to encourage you to explore Flywheel (https://cni.flywheel.io). A number of groups have already switched from NIMS to take advantage of Flywheel’s features. After Michael completes further testing, which we anticipate to be around September 1, we will… Read more NIMS transition to Flywheel: Part Two

NIMS Transition to Flywheel: Part One

BACKGROUND When planning the CNI we committed to providing the community with data management services. As many of you know, most MRI centers do little more than hand the user a DVD at the end of the session, and wish them well. CNI users are supported much more extensively. Data acquired on our scanner are… Read more NIMS Transition to Flywheel: Part One

2017 Recap and Upcoming at CNI

As we embark on a new year (Happy New Year!), the CNI team would like to take a moment to highlight some of the things that happened last year and to preview some of the things we’re working on for 2018. Looking back at 2017 Personnel Changes In May we said farewell to Bob Dougherty,… Read more 2017 Recap and Upcoming at CNI

Updates for multiband reconstruction

The CNI has recently introduced a new option for reconstructing SMS (aka, multiband or mux) scans. The default reconstruction method in the SMS reconstruction pipeline is currently 1D-GRAPPA (Blaimer M. et al. MRM 2013). Based on recent research and testing, we believe that the split-slice-GRAPPA (Cauley SF, et al. MRM 2014) reconstruction algorithm does a better… Read more Updates for multiband reconstruction

Data management and storage at the CNI

In planning the CNI environment, we made a risky decision: We committed to providing the community with data management services. Many of you know that most MRI centers do no more than hand the user a DVD at the end of the session, and wish them well. Or perhaps they allow the user to copy the data… Read more Data management and storage at the CNI