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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1987
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1986
John C Hoenninger, III, Oakland, CA (US);
Lawrence E Crooks, Richmond, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA (US);
Abstract
An assembler/linker process utilizes predetermined control program segments ('templates' defining a sub-sequence of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) states) together with predetermined program-change tables of MRI parameter values. At least some of the program segments are referenced by predetermined symbolic addresses and include pointer-references to corresponding ones of the table entries. The assembler/linker process machine replicates a predetermined set of such slice/specific program segments in a predetermined order while also simultaneously indexing corresponding symbolic addresses and referenced table entries in a predetermined sequence so as to maintain proper correspondence between slice-specific main programs and subroutines for each replicated program segment. In addition, certain of the replicated program segments may be defined having predetermined symbolic addresses which are not indexed thus further conserving the number of program instructions which need to be replicated and stored in the assembly/linkage process. A subset of slice-specific program segments can be further designated for replication as a unit before following program segments are utilized. A unique linker language level syntax is also provided for an ordered string of input digital data used to control the assembler/linker replication process.