Open effigies opened 3 weeks ago
Even the DICOM definitions might not be ideal:
I wonder if there's something in the realm of "the time required to execute the program responsible for image data acquisition"; that would exclude sequence-agnostic features like patient prep / re-shimming, but rightly include things like establishing magnetisation steady-state.
The current definition of
AcquistionDuration
isThe definition of DICOM tag 0018, 9073 is:
They also helpfully provide a graphic to clarify the definition:
So this is the duration of the full scan, which only overlaps for single-volume acquisitions. Our definition more closely aligns with
FrameAcqusitionDuration
0018,9220:I propose the following (re)definitions:
This change needs to be communicated somehow. While upstream tools are going to refer to DICOM, downstream tools may only refer to BIDS. Any suggestions for wording?