Abstract: High resolution and high speed MR imaging is provided for imaged objects in which the brightness of the imaged objects dominates the surrounding tissues by using sparse angular sampling and projection acquisition techniques. Individual objects throughout a large field of view are imaged at a rate and resolution normally associated with small field of view techniques. For applications such as angiography, artifacts associated with sparse angular sampling are acceptable. Volume images are acquired by combining sparsely sampled projection in two dimensions with weighted Fourier Acquisition in the third dimension.

Abstract: A method of defining the operation of switching system peripherals is comprised of storing a software program for operating the peripherals in a switching system; storing at least one table of data for access by the program for defining operating parameters of a corresponding at least one peripheral; modelling a prototype of the peripheral in a remote host system by creating a human-machine-interface simulating the peripheral; storing a control table of data corresponding to the modelled prototype in a memory for the host system; and downloading the control table into the one table, whereby operation of the peripheral is controlled by the operating software programs and the data in the at least one table.