Easy scalable, low-cost open-source magnetic field detection system for evaluating low-field MRI magnets using a motion-tracked robot.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging is currently developing into a valuable diagnostic tool due to its simplicity of magnet array designs. Particularly, this allows the development of scanners as part of educational workshops, thus ensuring knowledge transfer and empowering local scientists to design tailored solutions for specific local problems. To obtain the maximum performance, the magnet needs to be shimmed requiring an automated system measuring the spatial magnetic field distribution.

Methods

A self-designed measuring probe based on commercial integrated Hall sensor chips is used and optimized by calibrating it in an easy-to-build calibration system. For positioning of the sensor, a low-cost five-degree-of-freedom robot arm is used and improved by camera-ba

SUBMITTER: Povolni P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12443900 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature