jMRUI 7.0 released

We are happy to announce the new jMRUI version 7.0

This new version comes loaded with many improvements and new features, amongst the most important:

  • FiTAID – Fitting Tool for Arrays of Interrelated Datasets. A new plugin for multidimensional, interrelated spectra quantification: models for 1D, 2D and multidimensional fitting (Saturation recovery, Inversion recovery, 2DJ,  2DJ diffusion, 2DJIR); flexible construction of the signal model with metabolite profiles defined as combinations of simulated signal profile(s) (simulated, e.g., in VeSPA, NMRScopeB (jMRUI)) and/or resonance peaks (Gaussian, Lorentzian, Voigt shapes); possibility to set various constraints on estimated parameters; possibility to select the fitting strategy (e.g. fitting domain, simultaneous or individual fit, algorithm, fitting region etc.); visualization tools for multidimensional data; batch processing of large multi-dimensional MRS data;
  • Flexible algorithm for combining spectra from array coils, tested for GE and Bruker raw data
  • plugin for phase and frequency correction of SV or MRSI spectra, based on a selected peak;
  • improved handling and processing of multi-slice MRSI data;
  • QUASARY (improved QUASARX), i.e., QUASAR with a choice of Gaussian or Lorentzian lineshape, common damping for selected metabolites, fixed amplitude ratios between selected metabolites;
  • AMARES is now accessible from the plugin SpectrIm and the resulting metabolite maps obtained in AMARES can be imported back into SpectrIm for visualization; the AMARES starting values, peak positions, and other prior knowledge can be saved/loaded as text files with a single click;
  • NMRScopeB implemented with Python3, with improved protocols;
  • support of new data formats: Bruker PV360, new GE data format, MRS-NIfTI data standard format in jMRUI; option to store/load quantification results and simulated spectra in JSON/NIfTI format; spectra including MRSI data can be saved in Matlab; Philips Advanced DICOM integrated in SpectrIm.
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jMRUI course March 2020

MRS data processing in the time-domain with jMRUI

16-18 March, 2020 – Brno, Czech Republic

We offer 20 free places in the jMRUI training course that will be held from Monday, March 16 to Wednesday, March 18, 2020 in Brno, Czech Republic.

The course is organized as a training event for the early-stage researchers of the INSPiRE-MED project funded by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie action grant of the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

The course is aimed at PhD students or junior postdocs researchers working on Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and interested in learning how to apply time-domain algorithms to process biomedical, preclinical and clinical MRS data.

If you wish to attend the course, please register as soon as possible. Once the capacity is filled, the registration will be closed. We will confirm your registration and give you full information promptly after you register. If you register after the capacity has been filled, you will be notified.

The course is funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, with grant agreement No 813120.

For additional information and to register visit the course page…

Featured image: Drawing of the City of Brno in 1591 by Johann Willenberger (1571-1613). Reproduced from Wikimedia Commons.

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Job offers still available at the INSPiRE-MED project

These job offers have expired

We have two unfilled positions still available for Early Stage Researchers to work on the INSPiRE-MED European project.

We seek highly motivated and qualified individuals to fill the last two Early Stage Researcher three-years positions still available in the project. The successful candidates will contribute to the development of advanced biomedical research tools in the field of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, and its application to the clinical day-to-day practice.

The positions still available are:

ESR9: Glutamate neurotransmission in depression: combining receptor and metabolic information from simultaneous MR/PET. At The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Job descriptionApply

ESR12: A decision-support system based on MRSI data at 3T, for glioblastoma therapy response follow- up. At Consorcio Centro de Investigacion Biomédica en Red M.P. (CIBER), Barcelona, Spain. Job descriptionApply

To apply to one or more of the available positions, follow the instructions at the bottom of their description document at the INSPiRE-MED website or click the “Where to apply” button in the description pages at the EURAXESS jobs portal.

Before applying, note that Early Stage Researchers are subject to the Eligibility and Mobility Rules:

  • Early-Stage Researchers shall, at the time of recruitment by the host organisation, be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree.
  • At the time of recruitment by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date.
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jMRUI at the ISMRM conference in Montréal

ISMRM 27th Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Montreal

We would like to invite you to the Philips Healthcare booth at the ISMRM 27th Annual Meeting in Montreal, where we will demonstrate the latest jMRUI version.

The Philips Healthcare booth is located at the Exhibit Hall of the Palais des congrès de Montréal, in the central corridor, towards the left as you enter the hall.

Exhibition Hall floor plan

Download the complete Palais des congrès floor plans from here.

Featured photo by Erick Zajac on Unsplash

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Job offers at the INSPiRE-MED project

We are recruiting 15 Early Stage Researchers to work on the INSPiRE-MED European project.

We seek highly motivated and qualified individuals to fill the 15 Early Stage Researcher three-years positions available in the project. The successful candidates will contribute to the development of advanced biomedical research tools in the field of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, and its application to the clinical day-to-day practice.

Before applying, note that Early Stage Researchers are subject to the Eligibility and Mobility Rules:

  • Early-Stage Researchers shall, at the time of recruitment by the host organisation, be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree.
  • At the time of recruitment by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date.

The available positions are:

ESR 1: Optimized sets of MRS scans for fingerprinting and dedicated parameter estimation by fitting or deep learning. At Universität Bern, Switzerland.

ESR 2: Maximize metabolic information in a multi-parametric study at ultra-high field, from pre-clinical to clinical validations. At École Polythechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

ESR 3: Next generation of multinuclear MRS(I). At MR Code B.V., Utrecht, The Netherlands.

ESR 4: Implementation of high-resolution MRSI methods in a pre-clinical scanner, and optimization for brain longitudinal studies of therapy response in mice glioma models. At Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

ESR 5: Efficient quantum-mechanics based simulation of metabolite excitation for fingerprinting and iterative parameter estimation. At Ustav pristrojove techniky AVCR, v. v. i. (Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Brno, Czech Republic.

ESR 6: Quantification and cross-validation of metabolic biomarkers in preclinical disease models. At Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

ESR 7: Development of automatic pipelines for MRS(I)/PET data processing and machine learning methods for prognostic and classification in Multiple Sclerosis patients. At Université Claude Bernard-Lyon1, Lyon, France) –

ESR 8: Pathophysiology of Tourette syndrome: multimodal characterization of metabolic alterations. At Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften Ev (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences), Leipzig, Germany.

ESR9: Glutamate neurotransmission in depression: combining receptor and metabolic information from simultaneous MR/PET. At The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

ESR10: Integrated acquisition & post-processing of MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) data of the prostate. At Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

ESR11: Automated nosologic imaging by fusing multiparametric MR information in longitudinal patient follow-up. At Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

ESR12: A decision-support system based on MRSI data at 3T, for glioblastoma therapy response follow- up. At Consorcio Centro de Investigacion Biomédica en Red M.P. (CIBER), Barcelona, Spain.

ESR13: Boosting the academic jMRUI with novel algorithms and data format standardization. At Ustav pristrojove techniky AVCR, v. v. i. (Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Brno, Czech Republic.

ESR14: Validation and CE documentation of a Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy clinical pipeline as a medical device. At ICOMETRIX N.V., Leuven, Belgium.

ESR15: Development of robust, user-friendly analysis and reporting tools for automatic MRS(I) processing for use in a clinical setting. At Universitätsspital Bern, Switzerland.

To apply to one or more of the available positions, follow the instructions at the bottom of their description document at the INSPiRE-MED website or click the “Where to apply” button in the description pages at the EURAXESS jobs portal.

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The INSPiRE-MED European project will work on improving jMRUI over the next four years

Integrating Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Multimodal Imaging for Research and Education in MEDicine (INSPiRE-MED) is an European research project awarded in the call H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, of the MSCA-ITN-ETN – European Training Networks, to a consortium of 12 academic partners and 9 industrial partners coordinated by Prof. Dominique Sappey-Marinier, of the Université Lyon-1 Claude-Bernard, Lyon, France.

Starting 1st of January 2019, the INSPIRE-MED Initial Training Network will investigate over the next four years the theoretical and practical aspects of in vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) with applications in oncology and neurology.

MRS(I) is a unique non-invasive technique that provides insight on in-vivo metabolite content, an information that is highly relevant for the diagnosis and therapy follow-up in numerous disease models and patients. Despite such potential, clinical uptake of MRS(I) is lagging behind that of MRI and PET, mainly because of limited availability of efficient, robust and automatic software tools. Thus, INSPiRE-MED aims at establishing MRS(I) as an additional tool integrated into clinical routine imaging, but also extending its benefits with next-generation research methods. For this purpose, INSPiRE-MED will create novel MRS(I) methodology, integrate MRS(I) into multimodal MR/PET clinical metabolic imaging protocols, develop latest machine learning methods for data analysis and provide a clinical version of jMRUI, a worldwide unique data processing tool for MRS(I).

For additional information visit the INSPiRE-MED project website.

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TRANSACT-ITN final software survey

TRANSACT-ITN 2017 software survey

If you are a user of either the jMRUI software, the INTERPRET Decision Support System or the SpectraClassifier tool, we would like to know how you use these software tools and your opinion about them, so that we can keep improving our software to better serve your needs.

For that purpose, we ask you to participate in the TRANSACT-ITN final software survey by answering few questions about your training, your working environment, the data you process, and how you use and rate the software. Although most questions are mandatory, many are so trivial that you will answer them in a blink, and the full questionnaire should take you less than 15 minutes to complete, and less than 10 minutes if you only use the jMRUI software. The questionnaire has been tested with the most popular web browsers running on desktop computers and mobile phones and tablets, and you should be able to answer it from elsewhere.

The survey is brought to you by TRANSACT, the EU-funded FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) project that has been fostering the development of the jMRUI software from March 1, 2013 to February 28, 2017. The aim of the project was to Transform Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy into a Clinical Tool, and two of the main objectives of the project were:

Once the survey is over, a report summarizing all collected answers will be written and made available through the TRANSACT web site and/or this site.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation!

Picture “Survey” by NY, used under CC-BY-SA 3.0 / Cropped from original

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ISMRM - MR Spectroscopy Study Group

Virtual meeting: SpectrIm, a tool for the combined analysis of MR Spectroscopy and Imaging

Take note of the incoming virtual meeting “SpectrIm –  a tool for the combined analysis of MR Spectroscopy and Imaging” presented by Dr. Johannes Slotboom and Nuno Pedrosa de Barros, from the swiss Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN, Inselspital, University of Bern). This meeting is part of a series of planned virtual meetings on the topics: preprocessing,  quantification, and simulation software for MRS/MRSI.

SpectrIm 1.0 beta screentshot
SpectrIm 1.0 beta screentshot

This virtual meeting is organized by the ISMRM Study Group on MR Spectroscopy and it will be held on Thursday 23 February at 07:00 PST, 10:00 EST, 16:00 CET. The meeting will start with a short introduction by Dr. Slotboom followed by a software demonstration by Nuno Pedrosa de Barros.

Note (*): This activity was restricted to members of the ISMRM MR Spectroscopy Study Group and required prior registration. To register, attendees had to go to the meeting registration page at ISMRM website and the login information was sent to registered attendees on Wednesday, 22 February 2017.

The virtual meeting video and the PowerPoint presentation are available for download at the ISMRM virtual meetings archive. Beware that a regular member login is required to access these files.

Post updated on 2019-01-08.

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jMRUI 6.0 beta

jMRUI 6.0 beta released

A new version of jMRUI is available!

We are happy to announce the beta release of the new jMRUI version 6.0 for testing purposes.

Before releasing the final version, we would like to ask you to help us to test this beta version. If you decide to help us, please, download the installation file for Microsoft Windows and/or GNU/Linux from the beta version download page, and  test all the functionalities you usually use, but also try the new features, and report any problems encountered and/or send suggestions either to the jMRUI forum or by email to with the subject “jmrui 6.0 beta report”.

This new version comes loaded with many improvements and new features, amongst the most important:

  • Combined analysis of MR Spectroscopy and Imaging (SpectrIm), currently available for Siemens Advanced DICOM format. Philips DICOM data format is being implemented, but not yet included in this version. For testing purposes you can download some example data sets from the jMRUI download web page.
  • QuasarX (Quest with some new constraints, such as common damping for selected metabolites, fixed frequency shift of selected metabolites, shape peak selection);
  • New history-tracking mode that allows (1) to retrieve all processing steps that led to the creation of a particular data/result, and thus increases the reproducibility and documentability of all processing steps; and (2) to run macros in the interactive mode.
  • New plugins SpectraClassifier and INTERPRET Decision-Support System for spectra classification and pattern recognition. These plugins are compatible with jMRUI v. 5.2 and they are distributed separatedly under their own license terms.
  • New plugin jMRUI2XML for automating MRS processing and for exchanging data. This plugin is compatible with jMRUI v. 5.2 and it is distributed separatedly under its own license terms.
  • Improved version of the spin system simulator NMRScopeB – new protocols (SPECIAL, MEGA-PRESS, semi-LASER), possibility to choose a pulse shape directly in the protocol window (no more need to modify the Python script) and many other improvements;

We thank you for helping us to make the code better.

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