ArticleNMR in biomedicine2023
Benchmarking the performance of a low-cost magnetic resonance control system at multiple sites in the open MaRCoS community.
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- Low-field MRI: A report on the 2022 ISMRM workshop.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2023Review
- An integrated target field framework for point-of-care halbach array low-field MRI system design.Magma (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- On-site construction of a point-of-care low-field MRI system in Africa.NMR in biomedicine · 2023Article
- Tackling SNR at low-field: a review of hardware approaches for point-of-care systems.Magma (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Review
- Benchmarking the performance of a low-cost magnetic resonance control system at multiple sites in the open MaRCoS community.NMR in biomedicine · 2023Article
- Portable magnetic resonance imaging of patients indoors, outdoors and at home.Scientific reports · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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12 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeTo describe the current properties and capabilities of an open-source hardware and software package that is being developed by many sites internationally with the aim of providing an inexpensive yet flexible platform for low-cost MRI.
methodsThis article describes three different setups from 50 to 360 mT in different settings, all of which used the MaRCoS console for acquiring data, and different types of software interface (custom-built GUI or Pulseq overlay) to acquire it.
resultsImages are presented both from phantoms and in vivo from healthy volunteers to demonstrate the image quality that can be obtained from the MaRCoS hardware/software interfaced to different low-field magnets.
conclusionsThe results presented here show that a number of different sequences commonly used in the clinic can be programmed into an open-source system relatively quickly and easily, and can produce good quality images even at this early stage of development. Both the hardware and software will continue to develop, and it is an aim of this article to encourage other groups to join this international consortium.
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