Compass: High-end MR data processing Software

Our software engineers design and develop software to help improve user workflows and achieve better imaging results.

What is Compass?

Compass is a data handling interface aimed at researchers who want to spend more time on developing new methods and less on handling data formats and managing complex reconstruction pipelines.

Apart from the framework we provide several plugins for improved data acquisition and processing – and keep developing new ones!

MR data processing framework
Handles reconstruction and processing
Allows custom pipeline building
Building simple tools to process dataMRSI display and MR(S) data analysis

MRSI display and MR(S) data analysis

Reconstruct and visualize MRSI data, inspect individual spectra, align with background images, create heat maps of metabolite distributions.

Compass CSI Gui displaying the background MRI with the CSI over imposed.

SNR and noise correlation calculation functions

Create SNR maps and calculate noise covariance and correlation coefficient to evaluate coil performance

*Example of SNR maps generation at 1.5T (left) and a noise correlation matrix for a 16-channel coil array (with bore coil added).*

B0 and B1 shimming

Shim optimization both for the main B0 and transmit fields to locally improve signal.

*B1 shimming function showing amplitude and phase images for the 8 Tx channels available (above) and the histogram before and after shimming (left).*

Build custom pipelines and tools

Create a highly customizable pipeline, including own tools, then convert it to a tool that can be used with just a few clicks.

Pipelines in Compass can be highly customizable (left), but once set they can be converted to simple-to-use tools where only the essential info needs to be entered (right), greatly simplifying the use and improving reproducibility of the analysis