Improving Image Quality for open MRI Architectures through System Design Optimisation

项目目标：-优化开放式MRI系统的硬件设计，提高图像质量，减少成像时间，从而提高患者吞吐量。项目目标-设计新型射频（RF）线圈，允许局部成像，并在未来实现身体的并行成像（以与现代雷达系统中使用的相控阵列系统类似的相控阵列系统的形式）-设计、构建和测试电磁（EM）场相机，以在图像采集期间定义和补偿场变化-使用上述优化的硬件研究体内的动态功能过程。目前，开放式MRI安装在诺丁汉的彼得曼斯菲尔德爵士成像中心。目前正在详细规划各种工作包，以支持系统设计的协调跨学科研究。项目启动日期为二零二一年四月一日。

Project Aim:- To optimise the hardware design of open MRI systems, to improve image quality and reduce imaging times, thereby improving patient throughput.Project Objectives- To design novel radiofrequency (RF) coils to permit localised imaging, and in the future parallel imaging of the body (in the form of a phased array system similar to that utilised in modern radar systems)- To design, build and test an Electromagnetic (EM) Field camera to define and compensate for field variations during image acquisition- To study dynamic functional processes within the body using the optimised hardware described aboveProgress: At present the open MRI is installed at the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre in Nottingham. The various work packages are being planned in detail to support a co-ordinated interdisciplinary study of the system design. The project kick-off date is 1st April 2021.