MRI for everybody, everywhere

Overview

The virtues of MRI are abundant and far-reaching. However, MRI is accessible only to the privileged and not as often as desirable, mainly because they are expensive. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the state of the art of low-cost and portable MRI systems. They are based on low-field magnets and have to compensate for the loss in signal-to-noise ratio with smart engineering, pulse-sequence design, and reconstruction and data processing techniques. I will also present our latest results with a portable system, hard-tissue low-field imaging for dental MRI, and a high-performance open-source console for controlling low-field MRI systems

Speaker

Joseba Alonso, Institute for Molecular Instrumentation and Imaging (i3M), Spanish National Research Council and Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Repositories

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory - website

Negnevitsky, V., Vives-Gilabert, Y., Algarín, J. M., Craven-Brightman, L., Pellicer-Guridi, R., O’Reilly, T., Stockmann, J. P., Webb, A., Alonso, J., & Menküc, B. (2023). MaRCoS, an open-source electronic control system for low-field MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 350, 107424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2023.107424

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