v0.4.0

Fixes:

• fixed prep_rf_simulation method of BMCTool class (this only affected pulses with amplitude and phase modulation)
• fixed accessing attributes of pypulseq Sequence objects

Updates:

• standardised type hints using typing package
• standardised path handling using pathlib package
• updated example files

Deprecations:

• marked utils/seq/conversion as deprecated, because conversion functions are not needed since release of pypulseq 1.3.1
• marked utils/seq/auxiliary/get_offsets as deprecated. Use get_definition('offsets_ppm') instead.

New features/functionality:

• added utils/seq/auxiliary/get_definition function to get one individual value directly from the definitions of a seq file (much faster compared to pypulseq)
• added utils/seq/auxiliary/get_definitions to get a dictionary with ALL definitions of a seq file (much faster compared to pypulseq)
• added utils/eval/normalize_data function to enable the normalization of simulated data before plotting
• added several options to the utils/eval/plot_z function