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This Wiki is a resource for people who are assembling, programming, or using the instructional tabletop MRI scanner developed by Larry Wald's group at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital.
The scanner design is an open-source, low-cost resource for demonstrating the concepts like magnetic resonance, spatial encoding, and the Fourier transform in an educational setting. The system was first used in MIT's undergraduate course 6.S02 - Intro to EECS II from a Medical Technology Perspective.
The design was made possible through a collaboration between MGH, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (who built the magnets), Pascal Stang of Stanford University (who provided the MEDUSA console), and Maxim Zaitsev's group at the University of Freiburg (who designed the gradient coil traces). Systems ready to roll out: OPA 549
Introduction
Other low-cost tabletop imaging systems:
Desktop MRI system with 2 cm bore from Steve Wright's lab at Texas A&M.
Open Source Mobile MR Relaxometer from Mark Griswold's lab at Case Western.
Terranova-MRI earth's field system from Magritek.
MRIjx table top teaching system from Niumag in Shanghai.
Pure Devices 0.5T tabletop system from Würzburg, Germany.
Hardware
Sequences
Images
Lab Manuals + Course Notes
References
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