title: Laboratory information system for nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry in biomedical materials (NMR LIS). I. Data acquisition and experiment control.
abstract: A large and comprehensive Laboratory Information System (LIS) was developed for a laboratory that specializes in the studies of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation behavior in biomedical materials. Several programs have been developed (data acquisition and hardware control, data analysis, theoretical modeling, utilities like plotting, FFT, and peak fitting), and several other are under development (data postprocessing, database management, linkage to other systems). This paper describes a software module that was developed to control the hardware (to communicate with the NMR spectrometer pulse programmer, magnet power supply, temperature controller), to achieve efficient data acquisition through a parallel interface to the ADC devices, and to provide a user friendly interface to a complex laboratory system.
authors.affiliation: Radiology Department, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35233-1924.
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Sobol
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D003199:Computer Systems; D003625:Data Collection; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface