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SUMMARY:Towards open-source MR software and hardware with Pulseq and CoilGen
DESCRIPTION:MRI is a mature non-invasive medical imaging technology\, which is why the human MRI machines from all major manufacturers are very similar. Nonetheless\, the development and dissemination of novel MR acquisition techniques is hampered by the notoriously difficult and time-consuming task of implementing new methods on a particular MR vendor’s platform since it must be done using that vendor’s low-level and proprietary programming environment. Furthermore\, distributing a new pulse sequence to another vendor’s platform is generally not possible since each vendor’s software ecosystem is different and tightly sealed. This discourages scientific and clinical collaboration by introducing artificial boundaries\, leading to fragmentation within the research community. Whereas for image reconstruction and image post-processing a great variety of open source software tools exist\, little can be found for the MR pulse sequence design and even less so for the MR hardware. With our recent tools Pulseq[1\,2] and CoilGen[3\,4] we are actively changing the established predominantly proprietary landscape by contributing towards the open source and open science culture[5]. \nReferences:\n[1] http://pulseq.github.io/\n[2] Layton\, MRM 2017\, doi:10.1002/mrm.26235;\n[3] https://github.com/Philipp-MR/CoilGen\n[4] Amrein\, MRM 2022\, doi: 10.1002/mrm.29294;\n[5] https://www.opensourceimaging.org/ \nBiography of the speaker: \nProf. Maxim Zaitsev graduated from the Belarussian State University in 1997 with a Diploma Degree in Physics\, major Biophysics (equivalent of today’s Master of Science) and after a short detour to software industry has joined a Ph.D. program at the University of Cologne\, Germany in Fall of 1999. After defending his Ph.D. thesis on method development for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 2002 he moved to the University of Freiburg\, Germany\, where he pursued a career from a postdoc to a senior scientist and a leader of the group MR Technologies. In 2019 he accepted a University Professor position at the Medical University of Vienna\, Vienna\, Austria\, where he acted as a Co-Director of the High Field Imaging Center. In January 2022 Prof. Zaitsev returned to Freiburg\, Germany\, as a Head of the Medical Physics Division at the Department of Radiology\, University Medical Center Freiburg. Prof. Zaitsev is a co-author of over 130 scientific papers and named as inventor on over 20 patents. \nAll are welcome.
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