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MIT MRI Team

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An undergraduate MIT team is building an affordable low-field MRI scanner from scratch.

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The project divides MRI construction into hardware, RF, FPGA pulse sequencing, reconstruction, mechanical design, gradients, power amplification, and field mapping. Its stated approach begins with the open-source MRI4ALL design and aims for a permanent-magnet scanner that avoids some hospital systems’ infrastructure requirements. The page also exposes a small reconstruction-code example, including centered inverse FFT and k-space correction, while describing a target acquisition volume of 0.8 mm isotropic.

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