This repository contains the specification of the MDF and example code that shows how to handle MDF files and how to perform a simple reconstruction. In order to getting started run one of the Julia/Python/Matlab example scripts which will download experimental test datasets and perform a simple reconstruction.
In 01/2018 version 2 of the MDF has been released. It is a major breaking update that was necessary due to several shortcommings in the first version. The open source Julia package https://github.com/MagneticParticleImaging/MPIFiles.jl contains converters from MDF V1 to MDF V2.
As of version 1.0.1 the most recent release of these specifications can also be also found on the arXiv http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06072. If you use MDF please cite us using the arXiv reference, which is also available for download as MDF.bib.
Alongside the MDF specifications several small code examples written in Julia, Matlab and Python are provided. Irrespective of the language all examples implement the same algorithm. The example code can be used as a reference for basic interaction with MDF files. For more details please take a look into the respective README files within the language subfolders.
We provide a reference implementation for a high level MDF access in the Julia package https://github.com/MagneticParticleImaging/MPIFiles.jl. It can read MDF V2, MDF V2, and the dataformat of Bruker MPI system using a common interface.This allows to write reconstruction code that can handle all three data formats.