Deconstructing and reconstructing MRI hardware

Affiliations

¹ C.J.Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
² C.J.Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. Electronic address: a.webb@lumc.nl.

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Thomas O'Reilly et al. J Magn Reson. 2019 Sep.

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. 2019 Sep:306:134-138.

doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.07.014. Epub 2019 Jul 9.

¹ C.J.Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
² C.J.Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. Electronic address: a.webb@lumc.nl.

Abstract

Three topics concerning future hardware development for clinical MRI are discussed, with the general theme of operational simplification.

Keywords: Biosensors; Cryogen-free magnet technology; High temperature superconductors; Increased clinical throughput; Low-cost sustainable MRI.