Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
401-03-008 ISMRM Abstract

A4IM: Affordable, Accessible, Adjustable and Accurate Imaging at Low Field Strength with the OSI² ONE System

Primary: Physics & Engineering - Low-Field MRI
Secondary: Physics & Engineering - New Devices
401-03-008 · End-to-End Software Innovation · Tuesday, 12 May, 1:40 PM–3:30 PM · Hall 1A
Keywords: Low-Field MRI Open-source software Ultra-Low-Field MRI Low-Resource Settings Open-source hardware
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David Schote 1, Helge Herthum2, Christoph Kolbitsch1, Erum Anwar1, Christian Engler1, Jan Gregor Frintz1, Patrick Hucker3, Baki Karaböce4, Ilia Kulikov1, Sebastian Littin3, Christian Meumann1, Reiner Montag1, Tobias Mohr1, Catarina Redshaw Kranich1, Sebastian Schachel1, Andrew Webb5, Maxim Zaitsev3, Umberto Zanovello6, Lukas Winter1,7
1Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig and Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3University Medical Center Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
4TÜBİTAK UME, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye, National Metrology Institute Gebze, Turkey
5C.J. Gorter MRI Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
6Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Turin, Italy
7Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²) e.V., Berlin, Germany
Presenting Author: David Schote

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