Low‐cost and portable MRI

LL Wald, PC McDaniel, T Witzel… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Research in MRI technology has traditionally expanded diagnostic benefit by developing
acquisition techniques and instrumentation to enable MRI scanners to" see more." This …

Bringing MRI to low‐and middle‐income countries: directions, challenges and potential solutions

S Murali, H Ding, F Adedeji, C Qin… - NMR in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The global disparity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a major challenge, with many
low‐and middle‐income countries (LMICs) experiencing limited access to MRI. The reasons …

Three-dimensional MRI in a homogenous 27 cm diameter bore Halbach array magnet

T O'Reilly, WM Teeuwisse, AG Webb - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2019 - Elsevier
Modern clinical MRI systems utilise very high magnetic fields strengths to produce high
resolution images of the human body. The high up-front and maintenance cost of these …

External dynamic interference estimation and removal (EDITER) for low field MRI

SA Srinivas, SF Cauley, JP Stockmann… - Magnetic resonance …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Point‐of‐care MRI requires operation outside of Faraday shielded rooms normally
used to block image‐degrading electromagnetic interference (EMI). To address this, we …

The MR cap: a single‐sided MRI system designed for potential point‐of‐care limited field‐of‐view brain imaging

PC McDaniel, CZ Cooley… - Magnetic resonance …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The size, cost, and siting requirements of conventional MRI systems limit their
availability and preclude usage as monitoring or point‐of‐care devices. To address this, we …

Design and implementation of a low-cost, tabletop MRI scanner for education and research prototyping

CZ Cooley, JP Stockmann, T Witzel, C LaPierre… - Journal of magnetic …, 2020 - Elsevier
While access to a laboratory MRI system is ideal for teaching MR physics as well as many
aspects of signal processing, providing multiple MRI scanners can be prohibitively …

Low-cost low-field NMR and MRI: Instrumentation and applications

CA Michal - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2020 - Elsevier
While NMR and MRI are often thought of as expensive techniques requiring large
institutional investment, opportunities for low-cost, low-field NMR and MRI abound. We …

MaRCoS, an open-source electronic control system for low-field MRI

V Negnevitsky, Y Vives-Gilabert, JM Algarín… - Journal of magnetic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Every magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device requires an electronic control system that
handles pulse sequences and signal detection and processing. Here we provide details on …

[HTML][HTML] Deconstructing and reconstructing MRI hardware

T O'Reilly, A Webb - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2019 - Elsevier
Three topics concerning future hardware development for clinical MRI are discussed, with
the general theme of operational simplification:(i) Hardware changes intended to simplify …

On the economic value of open source hardware–case study of an open source magnetic resonance imaging scanner

M Moritz, T Redlich, S Günyar, L Winter… - Journal of Open …, 2019 - ojs.lib.uwo.ca
Increasing maturation and dissemination of easy-to-use and affordable means of digital
production (eg 3D printing), access to these in makerspaces and FabLabs as well as …