Comprehensive raw data collection using a Philips Research Imaging Development Environment (PRIDE) tool

Motivation: Automate collecting of MRI raw data from the Philips MR scanners. Goal(s): To create a tool that will allow users to extract selected scan data in raw format and save specific scan information for later use. Approach: Using a Philips PRIDE interface to gathers raw data and schedule a job to execute during afterhours on the Scanner Console. Results: The simple tool allows to collect complete raw data in under 3 mins at the end of the scan and associate the data with respective DICOM information for later association or annotation. Impact: Collection and storage of the complete acquisition raw data with associated DICOM information for potential use in the future using a flexible tool with a small footprint.