Abstract #0498

Progress Toward a Portable MRI System for Human Brain Imaging

J. Thomas Vaughan¹, Bert Wang², Djaudat Idiyatullin¹, Sung-min Sohn¹, Albert Jang¹, Lance DelaBarre¹, and Michael Garwood¹

¹Center for Magnetic Resonance Research - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, ²Wang NMR, Inc, Livermore, CA, United States

Critical magnet, imaging physics, RF and gradient technology were built and tested to demonstrate the feasibility of a portable 1.5T MRI system for imaging the brain in real world environments. Feasibility is demonstrated.

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