DIN EN 62464-2:2011-10

Presently the manufacturers of MR equipment use names for pulse sequences which are adopted from the literature (for example, spin-echo) or are defined by the manufacturer (for example, FISP: Fast Imaging with Steady State Precession). In the absence of a classification standard for pulse sequences the manufacturer-specific terminology complicates comparison of pulse sequences. The DICOM standard allows the inclusion of pulse sequence information with digital magnetic resonance (MR) images. This information helps with the interpretation of images. However, the DICOM standard allows manufacturer specific terminology. This standard specifies a concise manufacturer-independent classification scheme for MR imaging pulse sequences. This classification scheme is intended to name pulse sequences used in practice. The responsible committee is NA 080-00-18 GA Joint Committee NAR/DKE "Magnetresonanzverfahren" ("Magnetic resonance methods") at DIN, the German Institute for Standardization e. V., collaborating with Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft (German Radiological Society) and the DKE (German Commission for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies) at DIN and VDE and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin e. V. (DGN) (German Society of Nuclear Medicine), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik e. V. (DGMP) (German Society for Medical Physics) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Radioonkologie e. V. (DEGRO) (German Society for Radio Oncology).