Abstract #1278

A compact vertical 1.5T human head scanner with shoulders outside the bore and window for studying motor coordination

Michael Garwood¹, Michael Mullen¹, Naoharu Kobayashi¹, Lance delaBarre¹, Steven Suddarth¹, Djaudat Idiyatullin¹, John Strupp¹, Gregor Adriany¹, Jarvis Haupt¹, Alex Gutierrez¹, Taylor Froelich¹, Russell Lagore¹, Benjamin Parkinson², Konstantinos Bouloukakis², Mark Hunter², Mathieu Szmigiel², Mailin Lemke², Edgar Rodriguez-Ramirez², Robin de Graaf³, Chathura Kumaragamage³, Scott McIntyre³, Terry Nixon³, Christoph Juchem⁴, Sebastian Theilenberg⁴, Yun Shang⁴, Jalal Ghazouani⁴, Alberto Tannús⁵, Mateus José Martins⁵, Edson Vidoto⁵, Fernando Paiva⁵, Daniel Pizetta⁵, Maurício Falvo⁵, Diego Turibio⁵, Christian Bones⁵, Eduardo Falvo⁵, John Thomas Vaughan⁴, Julie Kabil⁴, Hazal Yüksel⁴, Harish Krishnaswamy⁴, Sung-Min Sohn⁶, and Ramon Gilberto Gonzalez⁷

¹Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, ²Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, ³Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, ⁴Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, ⁵Centro de Imagens e Espectroscopia por Ressonância Magnética, Universidade de São Paulo in São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil, ⁶Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, ⁷MGH/Harvard, Boston, MA, United States

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers in a multi-institutional consortium have designed and are building an easily relocatable head-only 1.5T MRI scanner weighing only ~500 kg. The goal is to develop a radically new type of MRI scanner that will enhance brain research, and ultimately, enable the diagnosis of neurological diseases in underserved populations throughout the world where MRI scanners are currently unavailable. To image with this system, pulse sequences have been developed and implemented to generate images using a highly inhomogeneous B₀.

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