Sandra Winsor
Centre for Advanced MRI, University of Auckland, New Zealand
The composing software is an image stitching program similar to stitching scenic photographs into a panoramic picture. The difference with the composer is that it stitches the image in the vertical direction. The reason we do this is that our MR systems have a maximum field-of-view (FOV) of 35–50 cm. The human anatomy is often larger than this, and by composing the images we can achieve an effective FOV of up to 205 cm.