General Information
===================

JEMRIS, which stands for "Juelich Extensible MRI Simulator", is 
a general MRI simulator.

The general process of simulation consists of preparation by choice or
implementation of sequence, sample and coil setup and the invocation
of the simulation run itself.  


Documentation
=============

It is _highly_ recommended to read the provided documentation online.
Please find the build, install, developer and user documentation under
http://www.jemris.org.


Licensing
=========

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 
02110-1301  USA

For an explicit declaration of licensing refer to the COPYING file in
the root directory of this package.


Contact
=======

This package is maintained by Kaveh Vahedipour <k.vahedipour@fz-juelich.de>.
Please find problem specific contact addresses on http://www.jemris.org.


Installation
============

Please visit http://www.jemris.org for detailed installation instructions.


How to report bugs
==================

If you have identified a bug in JEMRIS you are welcome to send a detailed
bug report to <k.vahedipour@fz-juelich.de>. Please include

* Information about your build configuration

   - Contents of the config.log file.

* Information about your system

   - Which operating system and version (uname -a)
   - Which C compiler and version (gcc --version)
   - For Linux, which version of the C library

  And anything else you think is relevant.

* Information about your version of JEMRIS

   - Version and release number
   - Which options GiNaC was configured with

* How to reproduce the bug

   - If it is a systematical bug in JEMRIS please provide the
     sequence, the sample, the coils and the outputs from sequence or
     simulation GUI to help us to reproduce the bug quickly.

Patches are most welcome.  If possible please make them with diff -c and
include ChangeLog entries.