Abstract #0748

Research and educational applications of an open source, low cost MRI console with an accessible pulse sequence programming environment

Lincoln Craven-Brightman¹, Thomas O'Reilly², Benjamin Menkuec³, Marcus Prier⁴, Rubén Pellicer-Guridi^5,6, Joseba Alonso^5,6, Lawrence L. Wald^1,7, Maxim Zaitsev⁸, Jason Stockmann^1,7, Thomas Witzel⁹, Andrew Webb², and Vlad Negnevitsky¹⁰

¹A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States, ²Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, ⁴Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, ⁵Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, ⁶Spanish National Research Council, Valencia, Spain, ⁷Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, ⁸Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, ⁹Qbio Inc, San Carlos, CA, United States, ¹⁰Independent researcher, Zürich, Switzerland

The hardware and software for a low cost programmable MR console has been developed, characterized and tested in various setups at multiple sites for both educational and research applications. A new Python-based wrapper allows easy pulse programming of different sequences and k-space trajectories using PulSeq, with output data also being processed via Python. The first two- and three-dimensional in vivo images have also been acquired using this hardware on a large bore Halbach array system.

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