Abstract #3638

Open Source Imaging Initiative

Lukas Winter¹, Haopeng Han¹, Antonia Barghoorn², Werner Hoffmann³, Stefan Hetzer⁴, Simone Winkler⁵, Larry Wald⁶, Andrew Webb⁷, Peter Blümler⁸, and Thoralf Niendorf^1,9,10

¹Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, ²Department of Physics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany, ⁴Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, ⁶Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States, ⁷Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁸Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, ⁹Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Regardless public or private healthcare system, MR costs determine healthcare outcomes. There is a high demand for affordable MR technology around the world to improve patient diagnosis and treatment. The aim of the open source imaging initiative (www.opensourceimaging.org) is to collaboratively build an affordable MR scanner and make its technical documentation available according to the standards of open source hardware. Combining innovation and open source allows major reduction of investment and operational costs with the ideal: From the community to the community.

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