Abstract #4818

Low-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging with MaRCoS

Vlad Negnevitsky¹, Benjamin Menküc², Thomas O'Reilly³, José Miguel Algarín^4,5, Teresa Guallart⁶, Rubén Pellicer-Guridi^4,5, Yolanda Vives-Gilabert⁷, Lincoln Craven-Brightman⁸, Jason Stockmann⁸, David Schote⁹, Marcus Prier¹⁰, Thomas Witzel¹¹, Andrew Webb³, and Joseba Alonso^4,5

¹Oxford Ionics, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, ³Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴MRILab, Institute for Molecular Imaging and Instrumentation (i3M), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Valencia, Spain, ⁵MRILab, Institute for Molecular Imaging and Instrumentation (i3M), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain, ⁶Tesoro Imaging S.L., Valencia, Spain, ⁷Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ⁸Massachusetts General Hospital, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States, ⁹Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰Department of Biomagnetical Resonance, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Forschungscampus STIMULATE, Magdeburg, Germany, ¹¹Q Bio Inc., San Carlos, CA, United States

Synopsis

In recent years, low-field scanners have proven their potential for clinical, preclinical, research and teaching applications. However, a critical milestone is yet to be achieved on the path to affordable, high-performance MRI systems: the availability of an inexpensive, versatile electronic control system (MR console), competitive with commercial spectrometers, but without dramatically increasing the overall scanner cost. In this work we show the status of MaRCoS (MAgnetic Resonance COntrol System), an open-source MR console and software package with powerful features, that offers higher versatility than many commercial spectrometers, and show its use in several MR setups, including in vivo acquisitions.

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