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Abstract #3111

Shimming-Toolbox: An open-source software package for performing realtime B0 shimming experiments

Alexandre D'Astous1, Ryan Topfer1, Gaspard Cereza1, Eva Alonso-Ortiz1, Lincoln Craven-Brightman2, Jason Stockmann2,3, and Julien Cohen-Adad1,4
1NeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States, 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 4Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

As MRI static fields get increasingly stronger, reducing $$$B_0$$$ inhomogeneities becomes more important but also challenging. When standard active shimming on commercial systems is insufficient for researchers’ needs, alternative approaches such as external shim or hybrid AC/DC coils can be used. However, in order to perform advanced shimming experiments, a proper software ecosystem is required and there is currently no open-source solution for transparent and reproducible shimming experiments. Here we introduce the Shimming Toolbox (https://shimming-toolbox.org), an open-source software package for performing and prototyping static, dynamic and realtime $$$B_0$$$ shimming experiments.

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