Abstract #1055

COSI Transmit: Open Source Soft- and Hardware Transmission System for traditional and rotating MR

Christian Blücher¹, Haopeng Han¹, Werner Hoffmann², Reiner Seemann², Frank Seifert², Thoralf Niendorf^1,3,4, and Lukas Winter¹

¹Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, ²Physikalische Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany, ³Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, ⁴MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany

As part of the open source imaging initiative (www.opensourceimaging.org), a collaborative effort to build an open source MRI, we proposed and built a transmission/reception RF system mostly consisting of open source components for traditional and rotating spatial encoding schemes. COSI Transmit is based on a GNU Radio compatible software defined radio (SDR) as a spectrometer, a 1kW RF-power amplifier, T/R switch, low noise preamplifier and a transmit/receive solenoid RF coil. The system operates in the frequency range from 1.8-30MHz (B0=0.042-0.7T) and can potentially be extended to B0=1.27T. Material cost of the system is ~3000€.

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