Description of a low-field MRI scanner based on permanent magnets

Merel de Leeuw den Bouter; Dilan Gecmen; Angeline Meijer; Danny de Gans; Lennart Middelplaats; Rob Remis; Martin van Gijzen

Description of a low-field MRI scanner based on permanent magnets

Merel de Leeuw den Bouter, Dilan Gecmen, Angeline Meijer, Danny de Gans, Lennart Middelplaats, Rob Remis, Martin van Gijzen

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Abstract

More than 6,000 infants develop hydrocephalus in East Africa every year. Magnetic Resonance Imaging is the preferred technique to diagnose hydrocephalus. In countries such as Uganda, MRI is unaffordable at even major referral hospitals. In order to provide a sustainable diagnostic tool we are developing an inexpensive and easy-to-use MRI system that yields images of sufficient quality to diagnose hydrocephalus. This paper describes our first prototype of such a scanner. We explain the lessons that we have learned from this prototype and how we used these to come up with an improved design. We also describe a dataset that has been obtained with this scanner that will be made publically available.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CVCS 2020 Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 Proceedings of the 10th Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 (CVCS 2020) Gjøvik, Norway, and Virtual, September 16-17, 2020
Editors	Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera, Sony George
Volume	2688
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	10th Colour and Visual Computing Symposium, CVCS 2020 - Virtual, Gjoivik, Norway Duration: 16 Sept 2020 → 17 Sept 2020 Conference number: 10

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Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR-WS
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

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Conference	10th Colour and Visual Computing Symposium, CVCS 2020
Abbreviated title	CVCS 2020
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Virtual, Gjoivik
Period	16/09/20 → 17/09/20

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Dataset
Halbach array
Low-field MRI

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de Leeuw den Bouter, M., Gecmen, D., Meijer, A., de Gans, D., Middelplaats, L., Remis, R., & van Gijzen, M. (2020). Description of a low-field MRI scanner based on permanent magnets. In J.-B. Thomas, G. C. Guarnera, & S. George (Eds.), CVCS 2020 Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 Proceedings of the 10th Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 (CVCS 2020) Gjøvik, Norway, and Virtual, September 16-17, 2020 (Vol. 2688). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

de Leeuw den Bouter, Merel ; Gecmen, Dilan ; Meijer, Angeline et al. / Description of a low-field MRI scanner based on permanent magnets. CVCS 2020 Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 Proceedings of the 10th Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 (CVCS 2020) Gjøvik, Norway, and Virtual, September 16-17, 2020. editor / Jean-Baptiste Thomas ; Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera ; Sony George. Vol. 2688 2020. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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de Leeuw den Bouter, M, Gecmen, D, Meijer, A, de Gans, D , Middelplaats, L , Remis, R & van Gijzen, M 2020, Description of a low-field MRI scanner based on permanent magnets. in J-B Thomas, GC Guarnera & S George (eds), CVCS 2020 Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 Proceedings of the 10th Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 (CVCS 2020) Gjøvik, Norway, and Virtual, September 16-17, 2020. vol. 2688, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 10th Colour and Visual Computing Symposium, CVCS 2020, Virtual, Gjoivik, Norway, 16/09/20.

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de Leeuw den Bouter M, Gecmen D, Meijer A, de Gans D , Middelplaats L , Remis R et al. Description of a low-field MRI scanner based on permanent magnets. In Thomas JB, Guarnera GC, George S, editors, CVCS 2020 Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 Proceedings of the 10th Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 (CVCS 2020) Gjøvik, Norway, and Virtual, September 16-17, 2020. Vol. 2688. 2020. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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