Total Mapping Toolbox (TOMATO): An open source library for cardiac magnetic resonance parametric mapping

• Main Authors: Konrad Werys, Iulius Dragonu, Qiang Zhang, Iulia Popescu, Evan Hann, Henrike Puchta, Agata Kubik, Dogan Polat, Cody Wu, Niall O. Moon, Ahmet Barutcu, Vanessa M. Ferreira, Stefan K. Piechnik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
• Series: SoftwareX
• Subjects: Optimisation; Model fitting; Parametric mapping; Longitudinal relaxation time; T1; Magnetic resonance imaging
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711019302225

TOMATO (Total Mapping Toolbox) is a C++ library for the calculation of parametric maps in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). As an open source project, TOMATO allows transparent and standardised cardiac longitudinal relaxation time (T1) mapping in clinical applications. With C++ implementation, TOMATO can easily interface and translate between research software environments and commercial vendors’ closed-source C++ environments on scanners as well as post-processing software. To complement the core library implementation, a ready-to-use command line tool has been provided.