Java-based graphical user interface for the MRUI quantitation package

This article describes the Java-based version of the magnetic resonance use r interface (MRUI) quantitation package. This package allows MR spectroscop ists to easily perform time-domain analysis of in vivo MR spectroscopy data . We show that the Java pro-ramming language is very well suited for develo ping highly interactive graphical software applications such as the MRUI so ftware. We have also established that MR quantitation algorithms, programme d in other languages, can easily be embedded into the Java-based MRUI by us ing the Java native interface (JNI). This new graphical user interface (GUI ) has been conceived for the processing of large data sets and uses prior k nowledge data-bases to make interactive quantitation algorithms more userfr iendly. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.